Lester's Dreadful Sweaters
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When Lester's mysterious cousin Clara comes to stay with his family she insists on knitting him ugly sweaters and Lester must figure out how to accept the unwanted gifts without hurting his cousin's feelings.
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Add a SummaryWhen Lester is informed that Cousin Clara will be staying with his family he thinks little of it. And everything is fine at first (Lester’s a little anal retentive and fortunately she doesn’t muck with his stuff). But the boy has no idea what he’s in for when she informs him one day that, “I made you a sweater.” And whatta sweater. It may in fact be the worst sweater Lester has seen in his entire life. After wearing it to school Lester finds that the sweater has conveniently become shrunk in the wash. No matter. Cousin Clara is, as she says, a “curiously speedy knitter”. And from her knitting needles erupt sweater after sweater, each beating the last out in terms of horrific awfulness. It isn’t until Lester uses his head after a birthday party and enlists the help of some good-natured clowns that he solves his sweater problem and even manages to break out of his shell a little.
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Add a Quote“It was shriveled yet saggy. It has holes where it shouldn’t and none where it should. It was a less-than-pleasant yellow and smothered with purple pom-poms.”
“Cousin Clara’s cottage was consumed by a crocodile. Luckily, Cousin Clara wasn’t in it.”
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Add a CommentAn interesting book with a twist. The sweaters are colourful and fun.
I give credit to the artist for imagining up some really dreadful sweaters!
A very funny book filled with wonderfully creative funky sweaters!
We hold these truths to be self-evident that gift giving is an art. And when that art is perverted or twisted into something wrong and unholy, it can wreck havoc with a child's everyday life. Enter Lester's Dreadful Sweaters. You think you had it bad when Great-Aunt Hilda sent you twenty pairs of off-white tams? Buddy, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. This book goes extreme and ends up being one of the best picture books of the year.
When Cousin Clara’s cottage was consumed by a crocodile (fortunately, she wasn’t in it), she came to live with Lester and his parents. All was well until Cousin Clara, who loved to knit, decided to make a new sweater for Lester to wear to school. Shriveled yet saggy, with holes and purple pom-poms everywhere, the sweater was hideous to behold and hideous to wear. To be polite, Lester wore it to school, where he was teased all day long. Later, the sweater was found in the laundry, mysteriously shrunken, stringy and unwearable. “No problem!” declared Cousin Clara and immediately began to knit again. The second cardigan was just as dreadful as the first. It was pink with a tail and upside-down pockets all over. After school was finished that day, the pink sweater was “somehow” shredded to pieces by the lawn mower. “No problem!” said Cousin Clara, and started to knit again. And so the week continued, each morning with a frightful new sweater for Lester to wear to school, and an inexplicably ruined sweater each evening. Not once did Cousin Clara grow tired of knitting yet another cardigan – but how Lester dreaded wearing them each day! Was he doomed to look ridiculous for the rest of his life? Listeners will laugh when they discover how a troupe of clowns is able to save the day for Lester in this droll, witty tale, generously sprinkled with alliteration, wordplay and clever illustrations.