Lee Cohen

Little Kid Reaction: My son did not have a strong reaction to the book. He enjoyed listening to the story and he, of course, loved the part about the CAKE!

Big Kid Reaction: The illustrations were rich and detailed with LOTS to discover. The story, while, awkward, had a VERY loving and positive feel to it. That being said, I am not a huge fan of the Rip Squeak books. I have read others, and he stories consistently feel disjointed to me: jumps in the stories from one page to the next that I don't understand.

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I first discovered the whimsical art of Rip Squeak in a gallery in San Diego. When I saw a book featuring the artwork in the Early Reviewers catalogue, I jumped at the chance to read it and find out about the characters the paintings and prints so whimsically displayed.

The art did not disappoint, but the storytelling did in that it didn't meet the quality of the illustrations. The story begins and ends with Rip Squeak, Jesse, Abbey and Euripides becoming bored and finding solace in books. Though it does a fair job of encouraging younger readers to read in order to expand their imagination, the narrative itself is uninteresting, uninspired and rather mundane.… (mere)