Petlandia
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A houseful of pets has declared their independence--but now they're fighting like cats and dogs!In Peter Hannan's delightfully absurd, illustrated chapter book PETLANDIA, a family of pets has kicked their snoring, sniveling humans to the curb, and declared the house an independent nation. But who will lead the new country of Petlandia? Tricky feline (and dictator-wannabe) Mrs. Wigglesworth is expecting to be waited on like a queen. It's all foot rubs and ice cream sundaes from here on out! But doofy dog Grub and his lovesick sidekick Honeybaked Hamster want equal representation, and they have the masses on their side. It's a dog-eat-dog world, and soon Petlandia has descended into all-out civil war!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hannan targets the audience of his Freddy! and Super Goofballs series with an animal-centric comedy that resurrects some of the canine-feline animosity seen in his CatDog animated series. Madame Wigglesworth, the Finkleblurt family's self-aggrandizing pet cat, is infuriated by the way the humans dote on pet dog Grub. She engineers a coup d' tat that kicks the Finkleblurts to the curb and leaves the pets, which include a lovelorn hamster and a depressed clownfish, in charge of "the sovereign nation of Petlandia." Hannan's manic cartooning conveys Madame Wigglesworth's monomania and Grub's mental vacancies with glee, but while outlandish moments are frequent, the dialed-up-to-11 energy can grow tiring. Ages 7 10.
