Dear Miss Perfect: A Beast's Guide to Proper Behavior Book

However beastly the problem, Miss Perfect, a correspondent for the Beastly Gazette, has the answer:

Say “I’m sorry” if you accidentally crush someone.
Clean your room when asked.
And never chew on your sister without first asking permission.

Readers will laugh at Miss Perfect’s often surprising but always on-target advice, and find a kinship with the animals, whose problems are not all that different from their own.

Grace OliffCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - School Library Journal

K-Gr 4
Miss Perfect writes an advice column for the Beastly Gazette . While some of her words of wisdom are generally applicable (clean up your room, consider the feelings of others, etc.), other suggestions are of use only to the particular beast asking the question. She tells a young komodo dragon to take an extra soapy bath to discourage her parents from eating her, and advises a porcupine to choose a dancing partner with thick skin, such as a rhino. While the concept is amusing, each bit of advice is overly long and there are far too many letters, resulting in a certain amount of tedium. The pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoons are pleasant but unexceptional. David Greenberg's Don't Forget Your Etiquette! (Farrar, 2006), Alan Katz's Are You Quite Polite? (S & S, 2006), and Diane Goode's Mind Your Manners! (Farrar, 2005) are all livelier choices.