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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Coming back to this down the years, it seems to me like something your cutesy indie webcomic-drawing friend would produce, in the good way. Pierre is one of children's literature's greatest, snottiest little bastards. (  ) booksfallapart | Sep 13, 2009 |  This is a story that is exactly what it says it will be: a cautionary tale, that has five chapters and a prologue. The simple rhyming is funny and begs to be read again and again. A wonderful lesson to learn, 'CARE!' (  ) fullerl | Jun 9, 2009 | This book is a good example of fantasy book because animals talk and do other things. Animals cannot talk to people in reali life. This book is about Pierre. Pierre is a little boy who just doesn't care about anything until the end of the book. Age Appropriateness: Primary, Intermediate Media: pen and ink drawings ( ) rbelknap | Apr 7, 2009 | Pierre just doesn't care. He changes his mind after spending some time in the belly of a lion. ( ) MrsBond | Feb 4, 2009 | Sendak must have been a handful as a kid. He certainly caught the essence of the difficult child here. If only we had access to a lion -- for paedagogical purposes only, of course. rosinalippi | Mar 23, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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"What would you like to eat?"
"I don't care!"
"Some lovely cream of wheat?"
"I don't care!"
Don't sit backwards on your chair."
"I don't care!"
"Or pour syrup on your hair."
"I don't care!"
Even when a hungry lion comes to pay a call, Pierre won't snap out of his ennui. Every child has one of these days sometimes. Mix in a stubborn nature, a touch of apathy, and a haughty pout, and it can turn noxious. Parents may cajole, scold, bribe, threaten--all to no avail. When this mood strikes, the Pierres of the world will not budge, even for the carnivorous king of beasts. Created by one of the best-loved author-illustrators of children's books, Maurice Sendak, this 1962 cautionary tale is hardly a pedantic diatribe against children who misbehave. Still, by the end of the lilting, witty story, most children will take the moral (Care!) to heart. Pierre's downward-turned eyebrows, his parents' pleading faces, and the lion's almost sympathetic demeanor as he explains that he will soon eat Pierre, make the package perfect. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
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