Chester Reviews

Kids Can Press

Last year's Cybils winner's out to prove she has her finger firmly on the elevated pulse of neurotic children everywhere. She mines deep into their psyches for a rich vein of dysfunctions -- and it's all pure gold.

This time out, the four-legged stand-in for us wacky humans is named Chester, a portly calico (though somebody please tell her that all calicos are female) with no self-esteem issues whatsoever. His narcissism is of rock-star proportions, and he can't bear the idea of a book being written about some nameless mouse. He X-es out any mention of that other...