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kayharkness's review against another edition
4.0
Perfect Halloween themed book choice for story time with kids. My girls were engaged in the story and in the creative art style of the pictures! Will read again!
courtneyb_70's review against another edition
3.0
This book has great graphics. The depictions of the cat and other characters in this book are created from other objects, like string, and food products. At the end there is a pictorial list of the items used in the book to create the characters. This seems like it would be a good book to get craft ideas from.
snowelf's review against another edition
3.0
We've enjoyed many of [a:Lois Ehlert's|10950|Lois Ehlert|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66-251a730d696018971ef4a443cdeaae05.jpg] books (and we LOVE [b:Chicka Chicka Boom Boom|293595|Chicka Chicka Boom Boom|Bill Martin Jr.|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348384871s/293595.jpg|680304]), but I didn't think too much of this story. The collage illustrations are interesting though. My son liked the pumpkin masks.
bookarian's review against another edition
2.0
Halloween, mice, cat, vegetable harvest, scary illustrations
libraryrobin's review against another edition
4.0
Gorgeous textures created with harvest produce in a rhyming autumn text. Really cool.
jessalynn_librarian's review against another edition
4.0
September 2016 - Ben particularly liked finding objects he knew in the pictures, and made me read the names of everything on the final pages.
kyliebean4's review against another edition
4.0
The story is simple. There are some mice, a squirrel and a raccoon that are having a harvest (Halloween) party and are trying to avoid a hungry cat and then they are able to smartly scare the cat away. But, as usual with Ehlert, the pictures are creative and engaging. My four year old loved looking at them and pointing to all the different components to them. She uses mostly autumn materials such dried corn, corn husks, gourds, pumpkin seeds, acorns, squash, etc. this was a delightful holiday read.
parliamentofrooks's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't like this book, the boy did. He is easily swayed by "scary" and almost anything with a Halloween theme. The most interesting part of the book was the collage illustrations. We talked a lot about the components of the different animals (twine/rope as whiskers etc) and very little about the text. Speaking of, I thought the story was clunky, with poor word choices in several locations such as "the creep we didn't invite." I think this one would be an easy skip, there are better Halloween/fall/harvest themed stories out there.
imjustcupcake's review against another edition
1.0
I really wasn't a huge fan of this story line. Mice and other creatures scavenging food (or having a party as they call it) and them fearing that the cat is going to come eat them. I personally do not think that is a great thing for little kids to be reading.
pussreboots's review against another edition
3.0
Boo to You! by Lois Ehlert is about a group of mice trying to scare away the big bad cat who is terrorizing their pumpkin patch. The mice work through out the story to build the perfect thing to scare away the big bad cat. Their project has the desired results.
Ehlert wrote and illustrated the book. She used photos of fall time crops: gourds, pumpkins, summer squash, corn and so forth, as well as cut paper. The cat's teeth, for example, are pumpkin seeds. It's whiskers are twine.
The final pages of the book include all the items used to make the collages. This visual appendix is frankly better than the book. There's not enough contrast in color between the different collage items to make the illustrations pop.
The kids liked the story for a first time read but it didn't make it to the re-read pile. They agreed that the details were hard to make out in the illustrations. They also found the mice's attitude unsavory.
Ehlert wrote and illustrated the book. She used photos of fall time crops: gourds, pumpkins, summer squash, corn and so forth, as well as cut paper. The cat's teeth, for example, are pumpkin seeds. It's whiskers are twine.
The final pages of the book include all the items used to make the collages. This visual appendix is frankly better than the book. There's not enough contrast in color between the different collage items to make the illustrations pop.
The kids liked the story for a first time read but it didn't make it to the re-read pile. They agreed that the details were hard to make out in the illustrations. They also found the mice's attitude unsavory.