Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Life

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2015
Language
English

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Pete the Cat’s guide to living a groovy life! Everyone's favorite cat shares his inspirational and feel-good quotes in Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Life—a fun graduation gift for groovy cats of all ages.

Pete's glass-half-full outlook on life shines through as he adds his fun take on well-known classics attributed to luminaries from Albert Einstein to Confucius to Abraham Lincoln to Shakespeare and more!

Fans of Pete the Cat will delight in this amusing look at quotes that are accompanied by Pete's witty responses and Pete illustrations by New York Times bestselling artist James Dean.

Plus check out Pete’s other groovy guides!

Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Love

Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Kindness 

Pete the Cat’s 12 Groovy Days of Christmas

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Contributors
Dean, James Author, Illustrator
Dean, Kimberly Author
ISBN
9780062351364

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Horn Book Review

Words of wisdom from luminaries such as Picasso, Einstein, and Plato are explicated by cool cat Pete, whose huge expressive eyes add to the humor of the textured pen-and-ink, watercolor, and acrylic illustrations. Pete's thought bubbles provide "groovy" (if simplistic) translations of quotations: e.g., alongside Eleanor Roosevelt's "You must do the things you think you cannot do," Pete thinks, "Nothing is impossible! (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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