For example: Will Fat Cat sit on the cow? As we’re asked this, a gleeful feline gives a mildly panicked cow the eye. Systematically, a narrator asks a couple questions. Author/illustrator Jan Thomas certainly hits it out of the park with this funny, not to say supremely goofy, picture book title. I have not enjoyed a picture book this much since… well, I suppose since the last Mo Willems title hit bookstore shelves. This may also apply after the far rarer event of snorting milk out the nose.' 'What Will Fat Cat Sit On?' falls squarely into the latter category.
My rules include the following stipulation: 'The Reviewer will make a sincere effort to review any title that causes her to do a dramatic spit-take after reading the first page of a book. Every reviewer I know of lives by a set of self-imposed rules and regulations regarding the books they choose to willingly review of their own free will.
