Lane Smith uses perfect pacing and vibrant illustrations to emphasize the power of perspective in this hilarious picture book about the goings-on in Bert's backyard. Today was a perfect day for Cat, Dog, Chickadee, and Squirrel. Bear crushes the daffodils, drinks the pool water, and happily gobbles up the birdseed and corncob. Today is a perfect day in Bert's backyard. Squirrel is munching on his very own corncob. Chickadee is eating fresh seed from the birdfeeder. Dog is sitting in the wading pool, deep in the cool water.
Today is a perfect day for Cat, Dog, Chickadee, and Squirrel. Reading Level: 1.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.6" W x 10.7" (1.00 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Lexile Measure: 260 AD (Adult Directed Text) (Feb.Contributor(s): Smith, Lane (Author), Smith, Lane (Illustrator) Perfect, readers will understand, is very much in the eye of the beholder. Bear is more galoot than menace, though Smith does conclude with Bert and the other animals bidding a hasty retreat. Then a hulking bear shows up, and Smith uses repetition to cleverly recast the calm declarations of the first half of the book (“It was a perfect day for Cat”) as Bear steals Squirrel’s corncob, devours Chickadee’s birdseed, dumps Dog’s pool over himself, and makes giddy flower angels in the daffodils (“It was a perfect day for Cat”). Smith’s artwork is a riot of color and texture-forceful brushstrokes evoke animal fur, and gestural flowers create blasts of color in the landscape. Cat couldn’t be happier sitting in a bed of daffodils, Dog rests in a cool wading pool, and a boy named Bert ensures that Chickadee and Squirrel have something to eat.
Smith ( There Is a Tribe of Kids) takes readers to a house in the countryside in a neatly constructed story that reveals how simple pleasures create a “perfect day” for several animals.
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