About this item
Big Chuck, a woodchuck, is having fun with Rabbit, Raccoon, Chipmunk and the mice brothers when he spots a pair of blue pants. Chuck must have the pants. He holds up the game while he struggles to put them on. "You are too big and the pants are too small," his friends tell him, but Chuck thinks he looks spiffy. Sidesplitting illustrations show a determined Chuck, stuffed into his much-too-tiny blue pants trying in vain to keep up. Comfort and fun finally trump fashion as Chuck sheds the pants and joins the gang for a game of hide and seek. Pat Schories's comic illustrations turn a stubborn woodchuck's misguided fashion statement into a laugh-aloud story about self-image and the well-intended advice of true friends.
About the Author
As a child, my favorite pastimes were playing outside, and when inside, making art. All these years later, my life is much the same. I have created many books for children, and am most well-known as the illustrator of the BISCUIT books written by Alyssa Capucilli and published by HarperCollins. I've also created my own series of wordless picturebooks about a dog named JACK, published by Boyds Mills Press; I'm delighted with the enthusiastic response and good reviews. My newest endeavor brings me back outside to play, illustrating the poetry in "FOREST, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? " written by Irene O'Garden and published by Holiday House.I live with my husband Harry, a fiddler, in the beautiful Hudson Valley north of New York City.
