The Problem with Pierre

C K Smouha, Suzanna Hubbard

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CICADA
19 February 2021

Children's & Educational; Picture storybooks

'This is a stylish picturebook with themes of compromise and friendship. -- Books for Keeps

'From the witty title, to the delightful endpapers, The Pocket Chaotic is a charming story about becoming independent and growing up.' -- Mr. Alex's Bookshelf

Alan and Betram are next-door neighbours. They are also best friends. They are also very, very different to one another. Bertram is extremely neat, and Alan is wildly messy. When Bertram gets a cat, called Pierre, he is dismayed to find that Pierre prefers it at Alan's house.

Alan tries to help his friend out - giving him his old sheepskin coat, his chipped bowl and finally, his beat up old sofa. At last, Pierre and Bertram are happy, but Alan is not - he has no company and no sofa. Fortunately, Bertram comes up with a brilliant solution to the problem...

The Problem With Pierre plays with the format of the book, splitting each spread down the middle - the page on the left is Bertam's neat-as-a-pin living room, and the right hand page is Alan's homely chaos. When, at the end, Bertram knocks through the wall between the two houses, and puts the sofa in the middle, there is a coming together of content and format that is sure to delight readers young and old.

By: C K Smouha, Suzanna Hubbard
Imprint: CICADA
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 285mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781908714855
ISBN 10: 1908714859
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 19 February 2021
Recommended Age: From 3 to 6 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzanna Hubbard is an established illustrator and writer whose books include The Lady Who Lived in a Car (Pavilion) and Love Poems (Orion). Editorial clients include Wall Street Journal, The Times and Marie Claire. She is a visiting lecturer in illustration at University of Bournmouth. C K Smouha is a children's author whose previous books include Born Bad, Sock Story and Iced Out.

Reviews for The Problem with Pierre

LOVE READING FOR KIDS REVIEW: A tale of friendship and cooperation illustrated in a lovely free-flowing style, full of colour. The double spreads of the book illustrate the difference between the two friends - with the spick and span Bertram's home on one side and the mess and disorganisation of Alan's on the other! The comparisons will keep children studying the pictures for a long time. There is a great deal to see in all the spreads, and readers will enjoy the many different things they can pick out! READING ZONE REVIEW: This is a nice book that's easy to follow; it covers themes of friendship and compromise. The illustrations are beautifully detailed and there's lots to look at on every page. This is a nice short book, with enough of a story that it is interesting and charming to share at bedtime. In the classroom, you could use it to discuss how friendships work even when people are different from each other, and how working together to find a solution can make everyone happy. MY SHELVES ARE FULL REVIEW: We all know how choosy cats can be and Pierre is no different. Though he belongs to neat Bertram, Pierre prefers the home of messy Alan, Bertram's best friend and neighbour. Finding this to be hard, Bertram borrows all the items that Pierre seems to like best. It leaves messy Alan feeling lonely and the pair devise a plan to please everyone, including the cat! A charming story about finding happiness- stunning illustrations bring this happy story to life. Another delight by CK Smouha with illustrations by Suzanna Hubbard. JOHN SANDOE BOOKS REVIEW: An amiable tale of a tidy person and an untidy one; the tidy one gets a cat, who baffles his owner by preferring to curl up in the mess of his neighbour's house. What can they do? Lovely, funny pictures that show the neat room on one side and the cheerful disorder of the other.