Copyright Date:
2024
Edition Date:
2024
Release Date:
05/21/24
Illustrator:
Teague, Mark,
Pages:
1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN:
1-665-93044-6
ISBN 13:
978-1-665-93044-4
Dewey:
E
LCCN:
2023036283
Dimensions:
24 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews
Three roommates plan a trip.The housemates introduced in The Cozy Home (2024) are still getting along, though their living space is littered with debris. "A vacation would be nice," says Cat, and Bat and Rat agree. But the Vacation Jar is empty. When Cat announces that "it's time to work," Rat looks aghast. Income from various jobs-washing cars, babysitting, mowing lawns-fills the jar with coins. Though Cat and Bat work hard, Rat plays pranks and goofs off. When the jar is full, it's time to decide where to go. Bat wants to travel to outer space, Cat prefers to visit a spa, and Rat doesn't care where they go, as long as there's food. While Cat and Bat bicker, Rat stealthily departs with the jar and returns with an answer to their problem: a staycation. He's brought back a lounge chair and cucumber eye poultices for Cat, a telescope for Bat, and a buffet of food for himself. Though Cat and Bat blithely accept high-handed Rat's unilateral solution, many readers will be frustrated-after all, a telescope and a lounge chair aren't quite equivalent to trips to space and the spa-and may wonder why the trio doesn't work out a more equitable compromise. In the accompanying art, the protagonists resemble large stuffed toys, set against simple backdrops.A one-sided depiction of friendship that will exasperate the fair-minded. (Easy reader/picture book. 4-8)
In the second book in the Bat, Cat & Rat picture book series from New York Times bestsellers Ame Dyckman and Mark Teague, the roommates try to compromise on vacation plans in three-and-a-half sweet and silly stories.
Bat, Cat, and Rat decide they need a vacation, but planning a trip is no picnic. Conflicts, compromise, and some well-meaning pranks ensue as prep work brings out the trio’s mischievous side.
In “Working,” Bat, Cat, and Rat discover their Vacation Jar is empty, and set off working odd jobs to save up funds. But Rat believes that all work and no play is no fun at all—and he knows just the way to fix that.
In “Choosing,” the trio can’t decide where to go on their vacation. Bat wants an adventure, Cat wants some R&R, and Rat just wants everyone to stop bickering about it.
In “Vacationing,” Rat takes the vacation planning into his own hands. Will he be able to come up with a compromise that makes everyone happy?
Bat, Cat, and Rat’s dynamic friendship and amusing antics are sure to have readers laughing.