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Animal Cafe (Reading Rainbow Book)

John Stadler

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Feb 28, 2011 Ronyell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: animal-books, read-in-1993, reading-rainbow-book, food-related-books, john-stadler

I actually first saw this book on an episode of my favorite television series “Reading Rainbow” and I really enjoyed this book! “Animal Café” is a children’s book by John Stadler and it is about a cat and dog duo named Casey and Sedgewick who privately own an Animal café without the knowledge of their human owner, Maxwell. “Animal Café” is a clearly wonderful tale that children will love over and over again!

John Stadler has certainly done an awesome job at creating a world where animals go do th I actually first saw this book on an episode of my favorite television series “Reading Rainbow” and I really enjoyed this book! “Animal Café” is a children’s book by John Stadler and it is about a cat and dog duo named Casey and Sedgewick who privately own an Animal café without the knowledge of their human owner, Maxwell. “Animal Café” is a clearly wonderful tale that children will love over and over again!

John Stadler has certainly done an awesome job at creating a world where animals go do their mysterious businesses during the night beyond the human eye. What I really loved about this book was that it plays on the classic animals doing secret and awesome things behind the humans’ backs scenario and it was so interesting seeing the kinds of crazy activities that all the animals do in Animal Café, including doing song numbers and making unusual dishes. One of the most interesting characters in this book was a grouchy pig named Cutlet who basically ate everything in his path and it was so hilarious seeing him so bloated up after he ate all the food at the café. I also loved the idea about a café being made for animals to enjoy conversing with other animals and man were the results hilarious and creative! John Stadler’s illustrations are somewhat simplistic yet extremely hilarious, especially of the images of the different kinds of animals that showed up at the café including an elephant who was a professor of a college, upper class alligators and birds and a retired colonel kangaroo. I also loved the illustrations of Casey and Sedgewick themselves as they are dressed up as waiters and I really loved Casey the cat’s green outfits for his show stopping sequence and Sedgewick’s blue vest which makes him look distinguished. John Stadler’s illustrations of all the animals doing human activities which include dancing and conversing with each other were extremely creative and enjoyable to look at.

Overall, “Animal Café” is a brilliantly clever and creative book about what secret activites animals do at night that children will definitely get in to. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book.
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