What fun is it to have new purple skates if the rain moves in and leaves you stuck inside. Super fun, except I will not be eating frosted fish sticks any time soon. Yuck!

Poor Kitten, she broke her foot and can not go to the fair. Splat and his friends are going to bring kitten something special back. As long as they don’t eat it, or drop a coconut on Spike’s foot.

I’m kind of amazed this got published. I could see lots of parents complaining. It’s like weekend at Bernie's for kids. Old Dry Frye was a chicken lovin’ preacher. One day at a farm house he choked on chicken and died. Not wanting to be blamed for his death, the farmer put the body in the neighbors chicken coop. The story rolls down hill from there, with each next person moving the body. It was a fun book, but man would my library get complaints if it was in the collection.

This is a conglomeration of speech bubble with every one talking to everyone else. However, everyone are various animals, and people, so no one understand what the other is thinking. It could be any typical backyard day. It’s alright, but not one I would try to use for story time.

There is a big difference in Splat the Cat books. I love the ones written by Rob Scotton but the ones based on Rob Scotton are less then stellar. i.e. this one.

(Review from 2018)
Keeping a secret can be exhausting. It’s just so hard. But Splat wants his sister to have a wonderful birthday surprise, and she does.

This is an amazing story. A giant is in love with the moon, and when she doesn’t return his affection he lays down and sleeps. He sleeps for so long, that he becomes a mountain with people living on his belly. The town is a quiet town, raised not to wake the mountain, until Carolinda Clatter is born, and music wakes the sleeping giant. A wonderful story with beautiful illustrations.

This book is about water coming down a waterfall. It is really hard to read. It seems just a rhyming poem, which it does well, but really lacks a story to tell. It’s illustrated by David Catrow, and you can see his signature style. But his signature color is missing. It’s almost like he knew the story was boring, and couldn’t give it a proper scoring.

A perfect story for Superbowl weekend. Splat’s dad is a little down because his soccer team is not winning. Splat decides to enter the school competition and win the three legged race with his dad. That will make him glad. But you know Splat. Things didn’t go as anticipated.

This was such an interesting story. Sparrows are not native to america. They were purposely brought over to help with an inchworm problem that was killing the trees in Philadelphia. The author used historical ideas and concept to tell the story of how the bird got here. And he uses excellent illustrations to hone the point.

Splat tries to find the perfect instrument to play in his friends band.