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The Kweeks of Kookatumdee

1988Bill Peet

3.6/5

This book was ok, but I don’t think this is one of Bill Peets best. Kweeks are a sort of bird stuck on an island with one tree source and it’s every bird for himself. They fight over food. Quentin, a bird, decides they need to start working together and share food. They never really get there, but he faces down the bully who got all the food and got real big and mean. The birds are starving as the bully eats everything now. They decide to confront the bully all together, but only Quentin attacks and is chased around the little island until he is pushed to a cliff. The bird discovers that being starved, he is able to fly.It doesn’t really work. The birds try and organize and it never happens. They never work together. One brave bird has to do all this on his own. They never learn how to work together. It’s a fail. They do get off the island where food is plentiful, at least all but the bully. The bully is stuck on the island, to big to fly. The verse is rhyming and I enjoy his lines. I think he is trying to be like Dr. Seuss here. He doesn’t quite make it. The artwork is pure Bill Peet, but the story let me down. It needed more work. I love what I have read so far, but this is low on my Bill Peet list. The nephew wasn’t all that impressed with this either. He thought the birds were weird in a not good way. He did like the funny words and that made him laugh. He was glad the birds got off the island. He gave this 2 stars for the funny words.

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