Gifts and animals pile on until the microbus finally arrives at the seaside and readers are told yet again that it’s all “GROOVY!” The “me” mentioned in the lyrics changes from day to day and gift to gift, with “4 far-out surfboards” (a frog), “5 onion rings” (crocodile), and “6 skateboards rolling” (a yellow bird that shares its skateboards with the white cat, the squirrel, the frog, and the crocodile while Pete drives on). GROOVY!” On the third day, he gives “me” (now a white cat who joins Pete and the squirrel) “3 yummy cupcakes,” etc. On the second day of Christmas Pete gives “me” (here depicted as a gray squirrel who gets on the bus) “2 fuzzy gloves, and a road trip to the sea.

GROOVY!” The cat is shown at the wheel of a yellow microbus strung with garland and lights and with a star-topped tree tied to its roof. Nor does Pete have a great sense of scansion: “On the first day of Christmas, / Pete gave to me… / A road trip to the sea. If it weren’t part of the title and repeated on every other page, readers unfamiliar with Pete’s shtick might have a hard time arriving at “groovy” to describe his Christmas celebration, as the expressionless cat displays not a hint of groove in Dean’s now-trademark illustrations. You could even make a model of something which includes hidden objects from your life, like the New York City model.Pete, the cat who couldn’t care less, celebrates Christmas with his inimitable lassitude. You could either plan it on paper or actually make one. What would you put in your cabinet? It would be a fun activity to make your own cabinet of wonders or your own museum box, like Ben's. We learn about museums, curators, and cabinets of wonders. It is also a story of family, love, and special objects for collecting, not for their monetary value, but their sentimental value. What a creative genius! It is full of mystery as Ben, who lives in Minnesota and dreams of wolves, but longs to find his father, and Rose, who lives just outside of New York City and dreams of a mysterious actress who she keeps a scrapbook about. They are set 50 years apart but run parallel until they intersect paths. This book takes you on two adventures, one through words and the other through pictures. He said he knew then that he would have to write a book set there (p.

Selznick said he was when he went on a backstage tour of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Another fantastic novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick (author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret)! I was wonderstruck by this story just as Mr.

Scarum Fair by Jessica Swaim