Who Will Bell the Cat?

Who Will Bell the Cat? is a 2018 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack. Based on the fable Belling the Cat, it was published by Holiday House and is illustrated by Christopher Cyr. It concerns a group of mice who nurse back to health an ungrateful terrifying cat called Marmalade, make a bell and collar warning device, and how they manage to collar the cat with it.

This article is about the picture book. For the fable, see Belling the Cat.
Who Will Bell the Cat?
Front cover
AuthorPatricia McKissack
IllustratorChristopher Cyr
Cover artistChristopher Cyr
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's picture book
Published2018 (Holiday House, New York)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages40 (unpaginated)
ISBN9780823437009
OCLC1037155724

Reception

A review in Publishers Weekly of Who Will Bell the Cat? wrote "Lush, cinematic illustrations add drama to the late McKissack’s retelling of Aesop’s classic fable."[1] and Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, compared it to The Rescuers.[2]

Who Will Bell the Cat? has also been reviewed by Booklist,[3] School Library Journal.[4] The Horn Book Magazine,[5] and BookPage.[6]

It is a 2018 Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book,[7] and a 2018 Chicago Tribune Best Children's Book of the Year.[8]

References
  1. "Who Will Bell the Cat?". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. February 19, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  2. "Who Will Bell the Cat?". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. February 15, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  3. Lolly Gepson (2018). "Who Will Bell the Cat?". Booklist. American Library Association. Retrieved April 6, 2022. ... a truly scary piece of folklore about clever little ones coping with a brutal foe.
  4. Maria B. Salvadore (April 1, 2018). "Who Will Bell the Cat?". School Library Journal. Media Source Inc. Retrieved April 6, 2022. A worthy addition to home and school libraries by a master storyteller, perfect for storytime or one-on-one sharing.
  5. Betty Carter (2018). "Who Will Bell the Cat?". Horn Book Guides. Media Source Inc. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  6. Angela Leeper (April 2018). "A group of mice have a dangerous dilemma". BookPage. BookPage. Retrieved April 6, 2022. Illustrator Christopher Cyr's digital art plays with chiaroscuro to make this tale deliciously ominous.
  7. "Best Picture Books Of 2018 From Kirkus Reviews". cbcbooks.org. The Children's Book Council. November 19, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  8. Nara Schoenberg (December 17, 2018). "Best children's books of 2018: From an LGBTQ fairytale to an immigration story". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
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