A review by octavia_cade
Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto

3.0

Oh, this is fun. A family of mice move into a new neighbourhood, and get a dinner invitation from the cat next door. (I'm sure you can see where this is going.) You can also see the twist, because when the mice ask to bring a guest the story relies on the assumption that this guest is another tasty, sausage-named mouse. Small kids are likely to fall for that but I'm not, so no surprises there either. But I don't mind, because the illustrations are so entertaining, and the story-telling itself so zippy and slyly amusing, that presentation ends up being far more important than plot. As is frequently the case with picture books, to be fair.