Two big-eared rodents\u2014P\u00e9pin, who wears a blue bow tie, and Cosette, who sports a pink flower\u2014accompany Grand-m\u00e8re to the museum, where they gaze at Hawkins\u2019 cartoonish interpretations (or MousterWorks) of well-known paintings by Edward Bannister, Johannes Vermeer, Claude Monet, and others. The enthralled Cosette eagerly engages with the art, imagining the scents and sounds the subjects might be experiencing, while P\u00e9pin\u2019s more concerned with tracking down cheese. While readers will enjoy picking out the adorable rodents interspersed throughout the MousterWorks\u2014a mouse is tucked into bed alongside the youngster in Rosa Bonheur\u2019s Child and Cat, for instance\u2014they won\u2019t get that much out of the paintings themselves. The brief, plotless text provides no historical context or discussion of the pieces; readers curious about the performance depicted in Miyagawa Choshun\u2019s Ryukyuan Dancers and Musicians, for instance, will need to go elsewhere to learn more. And though the MousterWorks are cute enough, alterations in composition, facial expressions, and color scheme mean that readers won\u2019t get the full emotional effect. An author\u2019s note includes a link to a website comparing the MousterWorks to the originals, while endpapers list the names and birth and death dates of the artists.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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