Catie & Josephine

by Jonathon Scott Fuqua and Steven Parke

Catie Calloway's family has moved a lot, which is rough on an only child.When Catie finds herself in another new city and another new school, she is glad to meet Josephine, a girl who appears in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618394036
• ISBN13: 9780618394036
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

A blend of ghost story and novel

Catie's family has moved a lot, so when she meets Josephine, a girl who appears in her family's new home, she makes an instant friend. Their very different worlds and realities come together in Catie & Josephine, a blend of ghost story and novel, which receives Steven Parke's photographic blends of photo and drawings, throughout.

My daughters were gaga over this book!!!

It's not every day that your kids look more forward to a book than the television, so I'm writing in just to say this book so mesmerized and captivated my audience, three little girls, that, as far as I'm concerned, it's perfect. So, get it for your kids, mine are between 5 and 10,(I suspect boys'll like it, too) and be glad that there's something out there that grabs their attention and holds it better than the television.

Groundbreaking Fun for the Whole Family!

C & J is not just for readers 4-8 years old: It's sure to entertain the whole family. The story is rich and compelling with bittersweet undercurrents that will perhaps best reveal themselves to readers ages 10-12. The authentic dialog will amuse anyone who is or ever has been a kid or a parent, and the illustrations are stunning. This is an unusual and successful cross between a digitally-generated graphic novel and a children's (ghost) story, and its visuals are so unique that they alone deserve a special look. This book is ahead of its time and will surely herald an entirely new direction in (childrens') book illustrations. C & J is like reading a movie. Don't sleep on this one!

A really spactacular super great book

Wowwy. This book is funny and good and sad, sort of only a little bit at times. I loved it and Catie is fun and Josephine is a little different but really nice and I wish she was my friend because I would love to do magical fun things like they do. I also wish she was my friend because she would be fun to be freinds with. Catie is funny about the way she talks and plays and the art is like a movie. It's a super great book!

An advanced book for younger children

Catie & Josephine is a wonderful story about two friends trying to maintain their special relationship despite adversity. It is a touching, simple story that is at times laugh-out-loud funny and always captivating. The characters show a true affection for one another as well as a real wonderment at the diffences in each of their worlds. Catie reminds me of my own daughter, who rambles, gets excited, speaks in fits and spurts, and has brilliant ideas. Josephine is a child I'm unfamiliar with but daresay my grandmother would recognize from her Old-South, Victorian childhood. This is a book for children six and older, maybe its a chapterbook, and is unique in its mature art, and indepth, emotional story. Somehow it lacks a condecending note throughout. I imagine it would also serve well as a way to entice reluctant older readers to enter into the world of fiction, for the illustrations are indeed magical and lovingly crafted. Lastly, the girls used in the book for models should find themselves agents and head straight to Hollywood. Another beautiful book by a writer whom I have grown to enjoy and respect.