Did You Eat the Parakeet?
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A 2019 Buckeye Children's Award Nominee
A little girl can't find her parakeet—her kitty must have eaten it! Right? Where else would it have gone? It was just here! She shouts, she accuses, and she laments her loss. But her cat might be trying to tell her something . . .
With rhyming text and adorable art, Did You Eat the Parakeet? by Mark Iacolina is a sweet and silly picture book that will have children laughing through the final page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Iacolina makes a strong debut with this playful, sly, rhyming whodunit. When a parakeet goes missing from his cage, the narrator, despite a lack of evidence, is certain that the culprit is the cat. "Did you eat the parakeet?" she repeatedly accuses. "Did he become a tasty treat?" she probes further, reminiscing about what a "dashing, handsome fellow" the bird was. Of course, the cat can't talk back, but his expressions speak volumes as he semi-patiently endures the girl's laments. With spare, direct text, simple line drawings, and an abundance of visual humor, Iacolina's style is reminiscent of Mo Willems's in his Elephant and Piggie series. When the cat clears its name by revealing that the bird has been on top of the girl's head, where he's been mirroring her gestures, all along, she apologizes for getting so carried away. It's a perfect happily-ever-after ending; that is, until the girl starts to wonder: where has the mouse gone? Ages 4 6.
