The Story of Diva and Flea

It's Mo Willems. It's (surprise!) a chapter book. It's (surprise!) not illustrated by Mo himself, but by the wonderful Tony DiTerlizzi. It's a sweet (surprise!) story. It's (hurray!) set in Paris.

So I wanted to love it. Truth is you will find it a three star, if you are not an ardent Mo fan. Don't get me wrong. I did love it. But mostly because it's Mo, it's a chapter book, and it's set in Paris. It's a gentle story of a friendship that develops between an on-the-run cat and a highly pampered dog, but if you'd handed it to me and asked me to identify the author, I'd never have guessed Mo, devoid as the story is of his classically silly humor and neurotic characters.