Way off Broadway ANNOTATION
With the help of Dog and some friends, Cat writes and produces his play Hamlet of the Titanic.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Martha Cunningham
The fourth chapter-book in the "Catdog" series, this title may attract reluctant readers or early novel-readers, but it has very little literary merit. The story concerns the main, half-cat, half-dog character, who this time has written a play, Hamlet of the Titanic, parodying both the recent Titanic movie (by means of involving the principal actors Kate Winslow and Leonardo Di Caprio) and Shakespeare. The latter achieves dubious results, for references to Sir Laurence Olivier, the Old Vic, and actual lines from Hamlet would not likely hit home with the young readers. There are amusing illustrations, and the sentences are short and the paragraphs many. I would not stock my school library with it unless I felt compelled to attract non-readers.
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