Chicken and Cat Clean Up by: Sara Varon

This colorful wordless picture book is about two friends, a chicken and a cat. The chicken has the idea to start a housecleaning business and asks the cat to join him. The only problem is that the cat is clumsy and tends to mess things up rather than help clean. The cat breaks dishes, he doesn't know how much soap to use, and he even eats one of their customers plants! The chicken is absolutely fed up and kicks the cat out to the curb and out of his business.

While the cat is sitting on the curb, he ends up saving the day by catching a mouse thief that stole another lady's purse. The community is pleased and in return the cat gets a reward for doing such a good deed. The chicken forgives the cat for screwing up the "housecleaning business" and adds "mousecatching" to their services.

Again, I think this picture book is a good one for the little kids because they can tell the story based on how they interpret the pictures they see. (However, without reading the description of the book, even I feel like I would be confused as to what is going on in the story) The illustrations are somewhat bland too, not much color or expression.

I think the message of the story is that everyone is good at everything. So find what you like to do, and what your good at, and pursue that. For the cat, he was able to "mouse catch" and help the community at the same time.

Really I don't have much to say about this book, I felt like the entire book was kind of boring and there wasn't a clear message to the audience. Like for instance, why would the chicken ask the cat to be in a house cleaning business when the cat is sleepy and clumsy? I just didn't think the book had that much to offer to the reader. This isn't a book I would choose to read if I was a kid.