The Cat on the Mat Is Flat

Muck! Uck! Yuck! It's just bad luck when the truck of a duck gets stuck in the muck. Or when a dog on a cog gets chased by a frog around the bog of an angry hog. All of this and so much more! We promise it won't be a snore! These wacky rhymes just don't bore!

Andy Griffiths is The New York Times bestselling author of The Day My Butt Went Psycho!, Zombie Butts from Uranus!, and Butt Wars! The Final Conflict, as well as the hugely popular Just! books. He is a big fan of Dr. Seuss and of cauliflower.

Terry Denton is known for his humorous illustration style and has worked with Andy on the Just! books among others.  He lives by the sea in Australia with his wife, three kids, and a pop-up toaster that only toasts on one side. The next book from Andy and Terry will be The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow available from Feiwel and Friends in Fall 2009.

“Griffiths’s innovative book for beginning readers collects nine short, intentionally silly snippets propelled by kid-pleasing, tongue-tripping verse. . . . Denton’s edgy, stick-figure-filled sketches enhance the zaniness factor and the offbeat, ironic humor.”—Publishers Weekly
“Imagine the outcome if Dr. Seuss, Dav Pilkey, and Lane Smith were locked in a room until they came up with a book for beginning or reluctant readers. These nine rhyming stories have action galore, plenty of dialogue, and ample pen-and-ink illustrations, all wrapped up in humor. . . . Even young people who are struggling to get the hang of reading may happily handle all 176 crazy pages.”—School Library Journal “Definitely not your parents’ easy reader, but perfect for fans of Lane Smith’s HAPPY HOCKEY FAMILY.”—Kirkus Reviews “Take one part Dr. Seuss, one part Edward Lear, place in a blender with a dash of Dav Pilkey and a bit of Cartoon Network juice . . . meant to be read as pure joy. It's a piece of candy eaten in secret between meals.”—The Excelsior File (blog) “This collection of stories is fun albeit with a touch of mayhem . . . This is a good book for beginning readers, in the same vein as THE CAT IN THE HAT and THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK. It will likely spark a new rhyming nation of happy youngsters, some of whom will grow up to write their generation’s outrageously funny advertising jingles . . . Any beginning reader will find it charmingly slapstick and fun.”—Armchair Interviews