![]() ![]() ![]() If this list of activities doesn't sound particularly scintillating, that's because it isn't, making the narrative feel a little hum-drum. In one final step, Mouse creates a Halloween surprise for Cat. Ostensibly a story about a cat and mouse who cultivate a pumpkin together, it offers a very basic, step-by-step guide to the process, as narrated by Mouse, who instructs Cat in: adding soil to the flower pot, planting and watering the seeds, relocating the plants outside and waiting as they grow, constructing a scarecrow, when the pumpkins first begin to appear, and harvesting the pumpkins when they're ripe. Anthropomorphic animal tales can be a little tricky to pull off, I find, and Anne Mortimer's Pumpkin Cat doesn't quite get the job done, despite its beautiful artwork. ![]()
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