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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Mr. Maxwell the cat has just gotten a promotion and is treating himself to a live mouse at the Paw and Claw. The mouse comes to the table and they engage in conversation. Mr. Maxwell becomes uneasy with killing the mouse so the mouse tells him to close him eyes and just stab him with a knife. When the cat does this the mouse moves the cats tail to the plate and then the cat cuts his own tail. The mouse ran free and rescued the other mice. Mr. Maxwell was sent to the hospital but received a thank you letter from the mouse for saving his life. This is a great book with great morals. I would read this to students 2nd through 4th grade. It would be fun to read inbetween an activity. (  ) bspentecost | Oct 21, 2009 |  This story is about a very proper and powerful cat, Mr. Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell always eats lunch at the same restaurant everyday, at the same time, always ordering the same thing. But today, in light of his promotion, he decides to order something new; a live mouse. Once his food is brought out, his mouse begins talking. This mouse, tries multiple ways to prolong being eaten. Finally, he convinces Mr. Maxwell it'll be easier to eat if he blindfolds himself, once blindfolded, the mouse tricks Mr. Maxwell to stab his own tail! Once off the table, the mouse rescues all the other mice and they're all free. terios | Sep 30, 2009 | This book was about a cat going to a restaurant to eat a live mouse to celebrate his promotion. The mouse ends up talking to the cat and tricks the cat by becoming friends with him so the cat feels bad about killing him so the mouse suggest that he blind fold himself to do it while he is doing this he puts the cats tail under his knife and runs after he cuts himself and lets all the mice out of the restaurant. (  ) jalann | Sep 6, 2009 | For the high-brow diner a little trickery under glass. RapidCityPubLib | May 3, 2009 | This is a genuinely strange book. The art is a decadent, hyper-real update on deco, and isn't afraid of showing a drop of blood. The story is like a knowing take on Grimm, prodding at the civilised veneer which overlays brute savagery to form civilisation. There are flickers of dry comedy. It's a great story for kids, but unfortunately the prose itself feels padded; it's not that there are too many pages, but too many words on each page. Toying with his prey at great length is fun for Maxwell, but asks a lot of a kid's staying power. But this is an original, the dark obverse of Asch & Son's Baby Duck's New Friend. ( ) yarb | Jan 22, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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