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.
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." and Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, compared it to The Rescuers.
Who Will Bell the Cat? has also been reviewed by Booklist, School Library Journal. The Horn Book Magazine, and BookPage.
It is a 2018 Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book, and a 2018 Chicago Tribune Best Children's Book of the Year.
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