[.ca] Six-Dinner Sid (ISBN 0671796135)

You'll want Sid to move in with you!:
If you like cats, you'll appreciate how this one's personality comes through. SIX-DINNER SID is a black cat who gets whatever he wants -- most of the time. It's a simple, funny story you can read over and over. The illustrations are marvelous, with bright and pastel colors, and lovely detail in the flowers, etc. You can even see the cat's individual hairs and whiskers. The streets look somehow European (the book was originally published in the UK, so I suppose that's where it's set). I love the street scene on pages 3 and 4 so much I'd like to frame it! As for the wonderful cat, the pictures really capture his personality, the angles cats love to contort into, and the idiosyncracies of catdom. How fun!

One of the best:
This is the only kindy library book that my preschooler has found that we do not already possess! And it is fantastic. We had to order it from Granny in the UK cos its out of print in Australia. Who would be a kids author if something this good goes out of print! The black cat Sid lives at 6 different houses, has 6 different owners, 6 personalities in order to get 6 dinners! But the owners don't talk to each other so they don't know about this! Then he gets a cough and has 6 visits to the vet and 6 doses of medicine. The vet dobs him in to the owners and they are cross because they didn't know about it so they put onto 1 dinner rations. But Sid is a six-dinner-a -day-cat!! So he moves (from Aristotle St. to Pythagoras Place - nice touch) into 6 new houses and the new owners do all talk to each other and know about his little ways and don't mind. We love this book to bits - lovely pictures and easy print for a learner 4 year old reader. A classic.

Great book:
This is a wonderful children's story. Young children are able to relate to the main character. A good book to accompany this is Charlie Anderson. Well illustrated.

Great book - Theme is knowing your neighbors...:
Sid lives at six houses so that he can get six dinners every day. People in the neighborhood don't talk to each other, so no one knows... It works out well until Sid gets a cold and goes to the Vet six times. The Vet tells the six "owners" that they are sharing a cat and they get very angry. Sid solves the problem in a happy ending. This is my favorite children's book!

A happy ending to a yummy tale:
Six-Dinner Sid is a book (out of a huge collection) that we turn to again and again. The deft watercolor illustrations portray Sid and his quirky -- and unwitting -- co-owners with humor, affection and sophistication. A previous reviewer felt that Sid's problem was that he was lying and sneaking around. I don't believe this is at all the case. The text confirms that the trouble was rooted in the non-communicativeness of Sid's first set of benefactors. The second blockful he adopts "talked to their neighbors... And, because everybody knew, nobody minded." Sid's appetite for six-square is satisfied by the happy folks who deliver a pretty potent social statement about urban living. It's an immensely cheering story that never wears thin over repeated readings.