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    Pete the Cat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider
    Pete the Cat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider
    Pete the Cat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider
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    Pete the Cat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider

    By James Dean and Kimberly Dean

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    Pete the Cat’s cool adaptation of the classic children’s song "Itsy Bitsy Spider" will have have young readers laughing and singing along.

    The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain....

    As the itsy bitsy spider struggles, Pete and his friends know just what to do to help out!

    Fans of James Dean's #1 New York Times bestselling Pete the Cat will love rocking out with Pete.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9780062675453
    Pete the Cat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider
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    James Dean

    James Dean is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator and illustrator of Pete the Cat. He is a self-taught artist originally from Fort Payne, Alabama. He published his first book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006, and he illustrated his first children’s book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008. There are now dozens of published Pete the Cat titles, all inspired by James’s real-life rescue pet.

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    • 5/5
      Friendship & perseveranceEasy reader text with corresponding illustrations.Combined with a classic nursery rhyme/song using this book as part of them could easily leapfrom into reading extensions.
    • 5/5
      I did not read lol ? heart l o l
    • 5/5
      I loved it. great book. wonderful story. loved it too much.
    • 5/5
      Itst bitsy spider enjoys going up the Spout will he be washed out or make it?
    • 4/5
      I randomly selected this book off of my Overdrive wish list and was unsure how much I would like it. Turns out I thoroughly enjoyed this murder mystery Sherlock Holmes style! Interesting dynamics of the storyline that kept my brain engaged. First, a woman plans her own funeral and is murdered shortly thereafter. Hawthorne, a former murder squad detective, is helping the police solve the crime. He decides he wants a book written about his life and hires Horowitz. The two form a strange relationship as Horowitz follows Hawthorne around on his interrogative interviews. So, there’s the murder to solve and simultaneously a book to be written. I found this book quite interesting and look forward to reading the next installment.
    • 4/5
      I love a clean mystery. No cheap thriller filler, an homage to Sherlock and Watson.
    • 4/5
      What excited me is that this book bears a close resemblance to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson has. In this case, Horowitz is Dr. Watson and Hawthorne Sherlock. What they have in common is not only that Horowitz is the narrator, but that he also draws hasty conclusions that can sometimes lead to the goal, but can also lead to disaster.The story begins with an elderly woman visiting a funeral home to plan her own funeral. A few hours later she lies murdered in her living room. During her funeral, her only son is brutally murdered. Who is behind this?Hawthorn, a former police detective, investigates unorthodoxly in several directions. Does it have something to do with the car accident the lady caused ten years ago which killed a child or does it have something to do with her son who is an arrogant famous actor? The different strands of investigative approaches are often misleading. In addition, Hawthorne is very withdrawn and Horowitz has to invent a lot himself until he finally goes through all his notes and finds out how things are connected.It was an interesting read and gave a lot to think about. I would happily recommend this book to anyone.
    • 5/5
      This book was a delight from beginning to end. Brilliant to insert the author himself, and people he knows, into the story. I loved the clash of personalities between the detective and the writer. The mystery sufficiently complex to be continually interesting. I haven't read any other Horowitz books (surprising because there are so many and he's apparently well-known) but I'll definitely be following this series.
    • 4/5
      The first of the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. The author writes in the first person while introducing Hawthorne, a disgraced DI who consults with the police on their most difficult cases. The style of the book goes a nod to the Holmes & Watson relationship and Agatha Christie style story arc.This one deals with the death of Diana Cowper, who is murdered hours after arranging her own funeral. The back story includes her involvement in a hit and run accident of 8 year old twins where one dies and the other is permanently disabled. And she has an actor son whose career is ascendant and which she will protect at all costs.As expected, there are twists and turns. It's an enjoyable story. I will likely continue the series.
    • 5/5
      The Word is Murder is written by Anthony Horowitz and published in 2017.The title, The Word is Murder, is Book #1 in the Horowitz & Hawthorne mystery series.Brilliant, witty and very entertaining, the basic story involves solving the murder of a woman who was involved in a hit-and-run accident ten years previously. Hawthorne will ‘solve’ the case and Horowitz will take notes and write the book about the ‘case’.Are we primarily interested in the complicated murder mystery?The relationship between Horowitz and ‘rogue’ detective Hawthorne?Will ‘Tony’ end the partnership? or come to a compromise, so as to write about this very puzzling mystery?Read the book and decide! *****
    • 5/5
      The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz is the first in a newish series for this prolific writer who I have managed to avoid reading for some reason even though Magpie Murders has been on my Kindle for awhile. So, I am very glad to have discovered Horowitz now and am looking forward to more great reading.In this book, Horowitz plays himself and partners somewhat reluctantly with Daniel Hawthorne, an ex-policeman doing consulting work for the very police who sacked him. Hawthorne needs Horowitz to write his book and the two set off to investigate a murder. They quickly come into conflict as each learns to appreciate the other's skills and knowledge. The murder that brings them together is that of a woman, Diana Cowper, who just that morning arranged for her funeral. That coincidence as well as Cowper's tragic history and famous son intersect in a well-crafted story. Horowitz's tone moves from annoyed to self-deprecating as he tries to understand both the murder and the enigmatical man who has hired him.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! It was a fun, easy read that kept you glued to the pages!The book begins with Diana Cowper making plans for her funeral, only to end up murdered 6 hours later. Daniel Hawthorne is a police officer that has been disgraced in the department. His lack of personality certainly is testing celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz when he is asked to write a book with Hawthorne about this strange murder.I loved the twists and turns of solving this murder and I also enjoyed the banter between writer and detective! I would highly recommend this book!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this first book in the series, so I'll read more. Both characters are prats, but they grew on me.
    • 3/5
      I have been a long time fan of Anthony Horowitz's young adult fiction. This beginning of the Hawthorne detective series lacks some of the charm of his YA work. What makes it interesting is Horowitz is himself a character in the story, so I guess it's like meta-fiction. Hawthorne has been a consultant on some of the detective series Horowitz writes and now Hawthorne wants him to write a book about his detective work. It's a shaky but promising start.
    • 4/5
      The word is murderI enjoyed this murder mystery by Anthony Horowitz because of the way he inserts himself into the story as a witness to the murder investigation by former detective Daniel Hawthorne. The murder victim is Diana Cowper, a widowed upper middle class woman, who dies the same day as she arranges her funeral. Among the suspects are the parents of twin boys who were victims of a hit and run accident while was Diana at the wheel of her car ten years earlier. Horowitz gets drawn into the story because as an author, Hawthorne wants him to write a book about his work as a detective. Hawthorne is a disgraced former London detective who works periodically as a consultant on murder investigations. He’s very good at his job but he’s rude, unconventional, demanding and a cheapskate.Good characters, clever story telling and a surprise ending make this a good read.
    • 4/5
      A murder mystery novel with an odd little gimmick: The author writes himself as a character in the novel, pretending that he's been approached by an oddball detective who wants him to write about a case he's currently working on. And, boy, does Horowitz commit to the bit. Parts of the novel read like he's writing his autobiography, as he talks about his writing process, his other novels, real TV shows he's worked on, real famous people he knows, etc. More than that, one of the characters involved in the murder mystery is a supposedly famous actor, and Horowitz casually inserts him into actual TV shows and movies. And I have to say, there's something about that blurring of the lines between reality and fiction that kind of does my head in. It's one thing if the reality in question is far enough in the past that I can think of it as historical fiction, but telling me that a guy who doesn't exist had a major part in a movie I've seen just kind of makes me want to yell at the author to stop messing with my mind, even if intellectually I can concede that the conceit is at least kind of interesting.The murder mystery plot is also kind of interesting, with an intriguing setup and at least one moment where, after a lot of thought, I got to put together one little piece of the puzzle myself and have a nice little "aha!" moment, even if it didn't actually get me any closer to knowing whodunnit. Sadly, though, it all falls apart a little bit at the end, with the clue to who the real killer is coming as part of a big, weirdly out-of-nowhere exposition dump, followed by a very eye-rollingly cliche "Now, before I kill you, let me tell you my life story and explain all my villainous plans!" speech from the bad guy.Despite all of which, it was still reasonably entertaining, for the most part, but I'm definitely not feeling any great urge to read the rest of the books in this series.
    • 4/5
      A very clever premise by a writer who excels at this tactic.
    • 4/5
      Weird murder mystery in which the author is a major player in investigating the murder.
    • 2/5
      Horowitz- whose Foyle’s War is a masterpiece of television - flops badly here. He tells the story has himself, famous author, TV writer and egomaniac. He’s constantly talking about his films and his books and sometimes the mystery intrudes. Maybe it was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but I didn’t like it.
    • 5/5
      There have been three books in this series and I’m reading them out of order, but no matter. These are enjoyable romps written by an author who has already tried his hand at writing a Holmes-and-Watson mystery, so he knows how this works. But while Dr John Watson M.D. was a fictional character, Anthony Horowitz the author — and character in this series — is very real.To truly enjoy a book like this one, one has to like the characters and in particular the Holmes-like former police detective Hawthorne, for whom Horowitz is just a foil. And Hawthorne is an interesting character, as are many of the others who appear in these books.This one is set in London, and begins with a women being brutally murdered on the same day that she has gone to arrange her funeral. It’s an interesting premise, and the book is filled with red herrings. The plot was not entirely convincing, but I’m not sure anyone expected realism here — you come along for the ride, and the pleasure of at least solving some of the puzzles.
    • 4/5
      This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.---WHAT'S THE WORD IS MURDER ABOUT?The setup here is that a former police detective, Daniel Hawthorne, is doing some work as a consulting detective and as a consultant for TV. He's one of the consultants on Anthony Horowitz's show, in fact. And now he comes to Horowitz with a proposal, Horowitz should follow him around on some of his cases, watch him at work and write True Crime books about it, with the two splitting the profits.Horowitz is hesitant but is talked into the deal. And regrets it almost immediately—and would probably walk away from the deal if he wasn't intrigued by Hawthorne (who he really didn't know at all until this point) and the case.It's hard to say if the murder case is the "A Story" or the "B Story" in this novel—I think it's the A, with the storyline focusing on the writing of Horowitz's first Hawthorne book as the B Story. But it'd be easy to argue the other way—which really doesn't matter, I'm just bringing it up to describe how the novel works.I should probably talk about the murder case, though—it's pretty clever. A wealthy woman (also the mother of a famous actor) goes to a funeral parlor and starts making arrangements for her funeral. A few hours later, she's murdered. It's not as if she predicted her death (maybe not, anyway, that's to be determined), just the kind of freaky coincidence that gets the attention of journalists, consulting detectives, and spy novelists looking for a new project.It's not just a good hook—plenty of twists, turns, intrigue, and colorful suspects follow.NOT THE MOST FLATTERING DEPICTIONSWhen you first meet him, you think that Hawthorne's probably just a misunderstood guy because of a combination of his brusque manner and genius. You may even think that this work with Horowitz may lead to a redemptive arc, a rehabilitation arc, or something. But as the book goes on, the less convinced I was of any of that. I think he's just a foul sort of person who's really good at something. By most measures, he's not a good sort of person—but those are frequently fun characters.Horowitz really doesn't come across much better. I remember in junior high when I came across a handful of mysteries that Steve Allen (yeah, that one) wrote and I couldn't help but wonder why someone would write himself so unflatteringly. I eventually sussed it out and by the time I got to Kinky Friedman's mysteries, I expected it. See also, Brent Spiner's new book. Horowitz fits into that scheme—he's bright enough but doesn't have the stomach, the instincts, or cynicism to handle a murder investigation on his own—which is fitting, he's a writer, not a detective. He's a good Watson figure to Hawthorne—even while it's clear that he wants to do better.HOW WAS THE NARRATION?I've listened to interviews with Horowitz before, but I halfway wonder if I listened to another one and it didn't sound like Rory Kinnear if I'd believe it was him. Kinnear did a great job embodying the narration and characters--he's definitely the kind of narrator I'd want to listen to again.SO, WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT THE WORD IS MURDER?This was a fun mystery—you put any PI/PI duo in the mystery part of the story and it would've worked well*, it's just so well-conceived. Not surprisingly at all, Horowitz can construct a strong mystery/story and he does that here. I'm ready to read/listen to something like that any day. The victim, the suspects, the various motives, the red herrings, and the ultimate reveal provide everything you want.* In my mind, that's a compliment to the design of the story. I'm not sure it reads that way when it's read.What makes this distinct is the characters of Hawthorne and Horowitz—how they interact with each other and the suspects. Their new business relationship and its ups and downs over the course of the novel make this more than just a good PI story and turn it into a series that you're going to want to come back to.And you will want to. I'm glad there are at least two more and am looking forward to diving in.
    • 4/5
      A good mystery written from a very different and interesting perspective.
    • 5/5
      Awesome. Couldn’t put it down. This is one of those books that pulls you in and either keeps you or throws you out. I enjoy the writing style along with the references to the famous Sherlock Holmes and his crime solving stories. If I need to suspend reality in order to read certain books, so be it.
    • 4/5
      Greatly hyped but seemed overly contrived
    • 4/5
      I have never seen a mystery story with this premise. Here we have an author who has inserted himself into a murder mystery, and is telling the story from his first-hand experiences. Horowitz is Watson to Hawthorne's Sherlock. It's a wonderful idea and Horowitz carries it off while personalizing this story about a woman who walks into a funeral home in order to plan her own funeral. Six hours later, she is dead and not by suicide. She's been murdered. Hawthorne is a former police detective who left the service under a cloud, but since he's absolutely brilliant, the Met still uses him for particularly difficult crimes. Hawthorne comes to see Horowitz, who is a well-known author and screen writer, and asks him to chronicle his investigation into this crime. So begins the most unlikely fictional pairing and gives a whole new meaning to a "buddy investigation". The book was a lot of fun to read, and it kept me guessing. Having the author in the book gave the whole plot an immediacy and keeps the readers on their toes trying to see and understand things through the author's eyes. I couldn't help but think that this book would make a brilliant television show and even an intriguing series.
    • 5/5
      Making fiction sound like fact is the goal of most novelists, but few writers succeed in this objective better than Anthony Horowitz in “The Word Is Murder” (2018). The story seems so real that readers will be tempted to double-check the cover to make sure it really does say "a novel."This is because Horowitz makes himself the narrator and a major character, and he goes into some detail about his career as a novelist (“The House of Silk”) and as the writer of the Alex Rider books for children and “Foyle's War,” shown on BBC and PBS. He even makes characters out of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson when he has a conference with them about a movie script he has been working on. The line between truth and story becomes something of a blur.A former police detective named Daniel Hawthorne comes to Horowitz with a proposition. He asks Horowitz to write a true-crime book about a murder he is investigating as a police consultant. He wants Horowitz to be the Watson to his Sherlock Holmes, in other words.Hawthorne was fired for reasons he declines to explain, but because of his exceptional skill he is hired whenever a difficult case comes along. Such a case is the murder of Diana Cowper just hours after she had made her own funeral arrangements. Horowitz doesn't like the idea of writing a true crime book and sharing royalties with someone else, and he likes Hawthorne even less, yet the case sounds too intriguing to pass up.Ten years previously Diana Cowper had been the driver in a hit-and-run accident in which one boy was killed and his brother permanently disabled. Does her murder have something to do with this? Or is it somehow related to her son, Damian Cowper, a major Hollywood star? Like the cops, conducting their own investigation, Horowitz has his own theories about the murder, and like the cops he is always wrong.Horowitz has written novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, and now he gives Hawthorne Holmes-like abilities. Mystery lovers will enjoy this tale, and they will be happy to know Hawthorne returns in “The Sentence Is Death.”
    • 4/5
      Horowitz kept me guessing till the very end of the book! Looking forward to the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      The Murder of a woman just six hours after arranging her own funeral lays the foundation for a well crafted mystery. The central plot is well laid out and provides just enough misdirection to trick you into thinking you’ve solved it before the main characters. The interesting aspect to this particular tale is that Horowitz places himself center stage in the narrative, which could have been off-putting but he skillfully blends fact and fiction in a way that you’re not sure where reality ends and imagination starts. Having been lucky enough to interview him last year, I could clearly hear his voice and almost imagined this as him recounting the incidents over a few drinks.
    • 3/5
      In this self-referential novel, the author plays himself: that is, the real author is a character in the book. Moreover, he shamelessly refers to a number of his previous actual successful publications.In the opening pages, author Anthony Horowitz, a crime writer of some renown [a fact in reality as well as in the book], is musing about composing a new Sherlock Holmes novel to be written in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle. Before he gets deeply into the new project, however, he is approached by an unusual character, Daniel Hawthorne, a former policeman now working with as a technical adviser for television and movies. Hawthorne relates to him the curious details of a recent murder. Hawthorne is short of cash and wants Horowitz to write a book about solving the murder, starring (of course) Hawthorne.For reasons not immediately disclosed, Hawthorne was discharged from the police force, but his analytical skills are so well respected that the head of the force often hires him to “assist” the regular detectives in getting to the bottom of difficult cases. Yes, Hawthorne is sure to remind the reader of Sherlock Holmes, at least in his capabilities, though not his other personal characteristics. It seems that one spring morning Diana Cowper, a moderately prominent, late middle-aged socialite and mother of a famous actor, visited a funeral parlor [“parlour” in the book; after all, the story takes place in England] and arranged all the details of her own funeral, only to be murdered that very evening. Hmmm. Very suspicious.As you might imagine, that was no coincidence. Hawthorne sets out to find the killer with author Horowitz in tow. Horowitz interjects his own musings throughout the investigation, but just as his assessment of himself as an author is overblown, so is his opinion of himself as a crime solver. The actual resolution came as surprise to me, and no doubt will to most readers, because the clues (which Hawthorne discloses after the murderer is caught) are very obscure. Evaluation: This is a relatively entertaining murder mystery, with some nice interplay between the author playing Dr. Watson, and Hawthorne, who represents Holmes. But the mix of reality and fiction is confusing and feels manipulative. If Horowitz had stuck to his crime story instead of inserting self-aggrandizing snippets from his real life, it might have been better.(JAB)
    • 5/5
      An interesting perspective on the crime novel. I thought all the characters were credible, except the murderer! Enjoyed it.

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