Ethan T. Berlin

How fun is this picture book ! Text and illustrations are full of humor and invite young readers to follow Cat going on adventure , as the artist does his best to make his character happy : new friends, airplane, pizzas. Nothing seems to work ! I love this picture book so much ! And there is a chicken in it !!! It is so original, and the story really made me smile. It is a really great and amazing quest ! I love how the drawings are explained and quite simple to reproduce, allowing children to imagine more stories for Cat, and even maybe other ways to make him smile.… (mais)

First sentence: Learning how to draw a happy cat is fun and easy! First, draw two rounded triangles. Next, draw two triangles for ears and two big dots for eyes. Then add a triangle for a nose and lines for stripes and whiskers. Now, draw legs and a tail. Add some color! Finally, add a mouth. Hmm, she doesn't look very happy. What do you think she wants?

Premise/plot: Will this newly drawn cat ever be happy and stay happy? Or will this cat keep the illustrator busy drawing more, more, more, more. This story soon becomes quite elaborate and silly.

My thoughts: I love cats. I do. I was immediately drawn to this one--pun intended--because of the cover. I like the silliness of this one. It is cute, funny, a bit ridiculous. I love the interactive nature of this one.… (mais)

This book is about how to draw a cat. Duh, right? But you can’t assume that just because you draw a smiley face the cat is going to be happy. So, the omniscient narrator is drawing various things to help keep the cat happy. These things include airplanes and pizza and a catapult. Eventually the cat doesn’t look happy but someone else ends up sad so what shall the narrator do now? This book was fun, and the illustrations are simple enough that any reader could repeat them. I really like how it was colored and how one does not need to stay inside the lines. Overall, this is fun.… (mais)