Characters: Puss in boots, The King

Setting: In the medival times.

Theme: Trickery can get you into trouble and also solve problems

Genre: fiction trickery

Summary: This book starts off with a cat who gives the king a hare as a gift. He then becomes smart and He uses trickery to get what he needs and what he tries to accomplish. For isntance, he ran into a Ogre which can change itself into anything. What happened was that he told the Ogre to change into a mouse. From tehre, Puss in Boots ate him up. He goes through various adventures where he tricks people and animals to accomplish things. In the end he got the Marquis drunk so that he could marry the princess.

Audience: Children who learn about how important it is to tell the truth.

Curriculum ties: Ties to early development, learning about telling the truth and false tales.

Personal response: I have watched plenty versions of this story and and also read short bits of it but never the orginal story. I have got to say that this is a very intersting story and how it depicts trickery in a different kind of light. Even though Puss tricks others and gets what he wants and needs, he doesnt really receive any kind of discipline for it or it doesnt end bad for him. In the book, the art is very interesting as well. It displayed the cat as a normal looking cat instead of the cartoony cat that we are always so used to seeing in Puss in Boots animated movies. Overall, it is interesting how far trickery can get someone.. In this case a cat. ( )