Thursday, February 14, 2008

Just A Mess


One day, the critter (the little boy…they never gave him a name) could not find his baseball mit. He asked his mother where it could be. His mother said to look in his bedroom. He went into his room and noticed how messy it was. He decided to clean up a bit. Well, actually his mother said, “You made the mess so you can clean the mess.” His younger sister (who also was not given a name) and their infant sibling (who was not given a name or a gender) were of no help. Critter threw everything in his closet, stuffed clothes in his drawers, jammed toys in his toy box, and stuffed everything under his bed. In the end, critter’s room was very unorganized. Then, Critter noticed that his pillow was missing, so of course he looked on the other side of his bed where he found his baseball mit.

This book was made purely to entertain children; there was not really a moral to the story. But he did find the mit that he was looking for so the problem was therefore solved.

Illustrations:
- In every picture there is a tiny spider and grasshopper
- The mother is out in the garden which is kind of typical of stories
- Typical mess little boy
- The rooms in the story are pained pale calm colors
- I liked how one of the illustrations showed Critter scooping up his toys with a shovel. It made me laugh.

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