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Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn't Fit by Rayner, Catherine is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn't Fit about?

<p><P>Ernest is a large moose who can't fit into his own book until a little friend comes up with a big idea.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In keeping with this story's work-in-progress theme, Rayner (Harris Finds His Feet) uses green graph paper as a backdrop for Ernest, a moose who's too big to fit into the book's spreads. His pinprick eyes and ample schnozz, smudged with brown paint and dotted with fingerprints, peer at readers as he attempts to work his way into the confines of the spread&#58; He struggles to SHIMMY, SHIFT, and SHUFFLE in forward. His rear end dominates the next spread, pushing words out of the way. He tries to SQUIDGE, SQUODGE, and SQUEEZE in backward. But Ernest's chipmunk sidekick has an idea&#58; She fetches some masking tape, and Ernest collects some paper. Their solution--one that recalls the finale of a similarly themed title, Mo Willems's Big Frog Can't Fit In--is a quadruple gatefold made to look like scraps of paper taped together; unfolded, it shows Ernest in all his moosey glory. Rayner captures beautifully the bulk and awkwardness of Ernest's massive body and the nervous movements of the chipmunk; even smallest children will greet their antics wi

Who reads Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn't Fit?

Author

Rayner, Catherine

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374322175

Category

humor

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Humor

Rating

4.09 / 5 (1,999 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14