How to Save Your Tail*: *if You Are a Rat Nabbed by Cats Who Really Like Stories About Magic Spoons, Wolves With Snout-warts, Big, Hairy Chimney Trolls . . . And Cookies, Too - Hardcover

Hanson, Mary Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375837558 ISBN 13: 9780375837555

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2007

Synopsis

How does a cookie-baking Rat named Bob save his tail from being gobbled by two hungry cats? By serving them cookies and telling themfantastic fairy tales about his family, of course. There's the story about great-grand uncle Mustard who upgrades his family to a lovely three-bedroom brick house. (All's well until some wolves with snout-warts show up.) And there's the one about how starving Grandma Lois was forced to take a job spinning straw into gold. (Impossible to do . . . until a hairy chimney troll comes along.)With allusions to classic fairy tales, plus a storytelling rat to rival Scheherazade, this book—which also includes black-and-white illustrations, a family tree, and a map of Bob's neighborhood—is sure to hold both cats and kids captive.

About this title

Review:

Starred review, Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2007:
"Pen-and-ink drawings spice up the humor and flavor the delicious wordplay, punnery and the rodent versions of well-known folktales. Clever and cunning, this is a recipe for laugh-out-loud fun, especially as a read-alod."

"From the Hardcover edition."

Clever and cunning, this is a recipe for laugh-out-loud fun, especially as a read-aloud. Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Surprising and hilarious. The Bulletin"

"Clever and cunning, this is a recipe for laugh-out-loud fun, especially as a read-aloud."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"Surprising and hilarious."--The Bulletin

About the Author:

Mary Hanson lives with her family in Santa Barbara, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375837558
• ISBN 13: 9780375837555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Hendrix John