I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato

 By Lauren Child

I was underwhelmed by this one.  It's won awards and has its own show and everything.  It's one of those 'teach your kids to eat' books.  I guess it's better than most.

 The art is a mixture of simple line drawings and collage.  It's okay, but it's a pretty dated look.

The premise is an older brother making up names and origins for ordinary food items in order to make them interesting and appealing to his younger sister.  The ideas are okay.  The behaviour is mostly plausible.

Of course the little girl eats every single thing.

I'm just really bored by this type of book at this point.  There are so many of these.

I don't think I'll bother with any of the other books in the series.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

 By Judith Kerr

It finally came in the mail!  We love this book.

It's about a girl and her mum who let a tiger in to tea and he eats them out of house and home.

 But he's so polite, and of course they let him.  When their father comes home he decides that they had better have dinner at a cafe instead.

The girl cuddles with the tiger throughout the entire visit, and it's pretty adorable.  We've had this one for a day and I've read it five times already.

Friday post - Halloween -Kwik sew 1141

This year's request: an orange cat with black stripes, but NOT a tiger.

It's basically impossible to get an orange tracksuit, so I made one.  I sewed stripes on rather than paint them, because I wanted it to look decent if I was going to go all out.

I made the stripes out of black ribbing.  I added cuffs to the pants, even though they weren't in the pattern.
The tail is temporary.  I may make a better one another time.  The ears are full of buckram and sewn in a curve so that they pop up.

Because I was so unsure of the ears, I didn't line the hood.  I wish I'd been able to, but it just wouldn't have worked out.

The whole thing cost me about $50 in the end, which isn't cheap, but isn't bad.

I've come across 3 different polyester tiger suits in the $10 range in the past month, but I'm glad I stuck it out and made this thing anyway.  I'm super happy with it.