Reviews

How to Save Your Tail*: by Mary Hanson, John Hendrix

erinmp's review against another edition

4.0

Bob is a charming, smart, handsome, book-loving rat who is about to be eaten by two large and hungry cats. In order to (literally) save his tail, Bob starts telling stories about his ancestors. All of the stories are variations of famous fairy tales--but with a rat in the starring role, of course. Bob has to keep telling stories to entertain the cats, otherwise he'll be a pre-bedtime snack!

So cute, funny and entertaining. Very original and well-written. The fairy tales are changed to make them more entertaining, but still easily identifiable. Bob is a great storyteller and Hanson does a great job of breaking up the stories with real-time interaction between Bob and the cats. Highly recommended!

curiosityp's review against another edition

5.0

A rat-positive book of fractured fairy tales! I love it!

boredcat99's review against another edition

3.0

A very cute mixed-up fairy tales collection. I believe this is especially great as a read aloud. The book is structured as stories that a desperate rat tells to distract to two cats from eating him for dinner. The illustrations are fun and appropriate to the story.

bibliocat4's review against another edition

3.0

I read this with my daughter and it was really cute! Bob, the rat, tells stories about his relatives so that two cats won't eat him. The stories are versions of fairy tales but kind of mixed up. Bob's last story is about himself (and Cindy) and it is really funny! This is a good book for a younger reader since the chapters are not super long and there are pictures scattered through out the book.

kesterbird's review

4.0

this is really cute. Sherazade as a rat, telling his own ratty versions of familiar european fairytales to save himself from being eaten by some cats.