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...