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Scuttle's Big Wish

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Scuttles LOVES cheese. He saves a golden beetle from a spider's web and in turn is granted any wish from the beeter. Scuttles wishes for cheese but his wish becomes too big for him to handle. Cute story and wonderful illustrations.

I read this book to my daughter who is only 6 months old and she actually paid attention to me due to all the great pictures. Also my 6 year old sister-in-law couldn't wait to read it when i gave it to her for x-mas.

This sad little book was a great disappointment to me and my six-year-old. We opened it expecting gratuitous primate-on-cop violence but all we got was a poorly drawn mouse cartoon with a hackneyed plot and insipid characterization. I think 'Steamboat Willy' and 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...' had this area pretty well covered. Apparently not.
'Scuttle' is probably more fun than a colonoscopy, but only marginally so. And speaking of sinking ships, how about Mr. Delonas' editorial work?

This is a wonderful book! My daughter is 6 years old and loved every bit of it. The story keeps them interested and the pictures are just magnificent. I recommended this book to her first grade teacher and also recommend this for children of all ages!!!

My 3 year old LOVES to follow along and read, "CHEESE!" whenever it is on the page. My 5 year old is asking to read this book EVERY NIGHT. The pictures are so vivid, they capture their attention. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a gift or for your own kids!!

My child just loved this book. First, I got the book through the library and then I had to buy the book through Amazon because my child wouldn't part with the library book edition. What a darling book!

First of all, you don't know your history but being from Alaska I understand that. If you are educated enough to actually read the cartoon you know that the author was intentionally trying to be ambiguous with racist inuendo. If you want to get techincal, any normal cartoonist would have labeled the dead monkey as "congress" or "Pelosi, Reid" as you state as the authors of the bill. This would have alleviated any uncertainty as to whom the animal represented. 2nd, the cartoon stated "someone" else needs to write the stimulus bill not "they". You know damn well everyone is going to link the president to the bill. Anyone who denies this characterization is a moron or a liar. I can forgive your ignorance but please read up on your history.

I am writing this review in solidarity with Diana from Fairbanks, AK, who couldn't have put the furor over Delonas' NY Post cartoon better myself.

Like her, I just have to wonder just how stupid, ignorant, and lacking in reading comprehension the general public has become when it comes to the brilliant political humor of Sean Delonas. As little as five years ago, Americans would've been intelligent enough to get his level of satire. They would've gotten the slick symbolism, the sly inferences, and the subtle humor without any problem. But today we've grown so stupid as a public that not even a highly sophisticated cartoonist Delonas can't escape victimization.

Take his brilliant satirical look at the entire McGreevy scandal. In this cartoon he showed Miss NJ, having just won the state beauty pageant, trembling in fear as she receives a letter from an angry rival blackmailing her for her crown. Delonas brilliantly symbolized the corruption of NJ's government by drawing McGreevey not only as the blackmailer, but dressed in high heels, a beauty pageant sash, a bikini top and bottom, and tiara. Back when this cartoon debuted, a few morons went crazy over this cartoon, claiming that it was making fun of McGreevey as a gay man. But they were just the minority, because back then everyone else smart enough to recognize that this was really symbolism-- that the bikinied McGreevy represented NJ corruption and the way it blackmails that state's residents with its terrible policies.

Or let's take Delonas' subtle and intelligent look at NJ's gay marriage initiative. He drew a man in love carrying an ewe wearing a veil, rushing to get a marriage license. Some idiots were upset that it was saying that gay marriage was as deviant as bestiality. However, luckily a majority of the then much smarter American public "got it"-- the man in love symbolized the liberals; the "ewe" he held symbolized the "sheep-like" tendency of the public to go along with anything that they propose; the marriage license office represents a Congress dominated by Democrats.

Or what about "this" cartoon on the Washington Gay March? A group of burly, hairy, mustachioed men in Milton Berle drag-- plus a sheep-- are shown dragging a huge condom as the Washington Monument looms in the distance. The ringleader points to it and cries, "Not much farther, men!" A few nuts also complained about this cartoon when it debuted, claiming it made fun of gay men as sexual deviants obsessed with shoving objects up their keisters. But hardly anyone else blinked an eye, because back then the public was smart enough to know that the struggle that the transvestites in the cartoon have in dragging this condom towards the monument symbolized the struggles that gays have had in achieving civil rights, and that the distance of the Washington Monument also symbolized just how far they have to go.

I could go on and on but you get the picture-- in just a few short years, the reading comprehension and intelligence of the American public has sunk so low as to not really understand political satire of the depths and intelligence of a Sean Delonas, Doug Marlette, or Jeff MacNelly. It makes you sick to your stomach, weep with embarrassment, and ill with anxiety about the future of this country! If we have grown so dumb in so little time, imagine how dumb the next generation will be!

This beautifully illustrated book is similar to the old time McGuffey readers, which presented object lessons for yesterday's young readers. The text can read by a parent or in this case, grandparent, and the child's repeated "why" of wonderment is explained in colorful animated paintings. The lovable pictures are enhanced by the artist's mastery of science and anatomy. A great book for young and old to share.

Sean Delonas is best known for his offensive, bigoted, and homophobic cartoons in the New York Post which perpetuate stereotypes and demean entire classes of people. Publishing a children's book doesn't make him any less of a bigot, and the money he makes from it will only serve to encourage his hate. Please consider this before your purchase