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Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch audiobook

  • By: James Dean
  • Narrator: Teddy Walsh
  • Category: Animals, Cats, Juvenile Fiction
  • Length: 3 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: February 26, 2013
  • Language: English
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Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch Audiobook Summary

New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean brings young readers a lunchtime treat!

Pete the Cat makes one giant, tasty sandwich for lunch. But what’s the fun in eating lunch without your friends? Pete the Cat fans will enjoy Pete’s funny food creativity and Pete’s joy in sharing with friends.

Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child.

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Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch Audiobook Narrator

Teddy Walsh is the narrator of Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch audiobook that was written by James Dean

James Dean is the original creator and illustrator of Pete the Cat. He is a self-taught artist originally from Fort Payne, Alabama. His passion for drawing became apparent at a young age, and as a child, you could find James drawing his favorite characters like Snoopy and Yogi Bear. 

James earned his degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and went on to work for Georgia Power for a number of years. Eventually, he was called to pursue his art full-time and began selling his work at art festivals around the Southeast. 

It was during this time that he began creating paintings and drawing of his cat, Pete. The little blue cat showed up as a character in James’s artwork around 1999 and has been a permanent fixture ever since. 

James Dean’s art has been sold in more than ninety galleries and shops across the United States. He has devoted his paintings to Pete the Cat for fifteen years and turned his natural love for cats into his life’s work. James published his first book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006, and he illustrated his first self-published children’s book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008. There are now almost 100 published Pete the Cat titles with more coming out all the time.

James is humbled every day by the success that this groovy blue cat has brought him. He says positively affecting children’s lives is his number one priority, and he is grateful to have such an amazing audience to work for. 

About the Author(s) of Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch

James Dean is the author of Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch

Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch Full Details

Narrator Teddy Walsh
Length 3 minutes
Author James Dean
Category
Publisher HarperCollins
Release date February 26, 2013
ISBN 9780062283535

Subjects

The publisher of the Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch is HarperCollins. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Animals, Cats, Juvenile Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch is HarperCollins. The imprint is HarperCollins. It is supplied by HarperCollins. The ISBN-13 is 9780062283535.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Sophia

May 26, 2018

What can your child learn from this book?Being creative. What kind of food can you fit inside a sandwich?Getting perspective. How many things can you actually fit inside a sandwich?Learning her/his limits. Can I really eat this huge sandwich all by myself?Acknowledging his/her friends. Are there actually people out there that they would like to eat a sandwich with me?Appreciating sharing. Will I make my friends happy if I share my sandwich with them?I believe this little, sweet, educative, funny book is suitable for children up to first grade, maybe beginning of second grade.

Joood

January 25, 2018

Review by my 5 year old:http://www.platypire.com/pugglepires/...​I liked it because he couldn't fit all the lunch in his mouth, so he called his friends so they could eat with him. It is good to share, and it makes everyone happy.

Jasmine

September 22, 2021

Read for my toddler’s nap time. Pete was hungry and made a sandwich for himself. He kept thinking how the sandwich was too small and add more and more. Eventually the sandwich got way too big so he invited his friends over to eat with him.Read from kindle unlimited.

Zoey

March 11, 2019

It was funniest book EVER!

Mary

August 30, 2018

My girls and I love Pete the Cat. In this adventure, great to read to emerging readers, Pete tries to make himself a sandwich. He adds all of his favorite things, but before too long, Pete realizes this sandwich is WAY too big for him. So, he invites his friends over to share his big lunch. Everyone has a great meal, and a great time, and thanks Pete for sharing. My daughter chose this book as her prize at Barnes and Noble for reading over the summer break. It's a paperback, short and sweet. The story is cute, Pete is a great character, and this is fast becoming a story time favorite at our house.

Cara

July 09, 2020

Like _The Bad Banana_, _Big Lunch_ is another favorite in my household. The odd food items reminds us of _The Very Hungry Caterpillar_ in the best way.

Caryn

July 18, 2013

Pete the cat is hungry, so he decides to make a sandwich, but when he starts building it he simply can't stop. Pretty soon his sandwich is way too big for him to eat alone, so he invites all his friends to join him for lunch. After all, as he says, "Sharing is cool."This is a fun, silly tale with a nice message about sharing at the end. Many students will enjoy watching Pete's absurd sandwich grow out of control -- way too big for one cat to eat.Please note: Although this book is billed as an early reader, the fine print calls it a "My First Shared Reading" book and suggests that adults share it with emergent readers. Also, those who expect this to be like the previous Pete the Cat books, with the rhythm and the music, may be in for a disappointment, as the original author has moved on. As a standalone book, however, it's a fun story.

Kaylin and Liam

December 03, 2013

LIAM'S REVIEW (7 years old)This book is so cool. I saw the dog still have a cracker! lol I think everyone should read it.

midnightfaerie

March 28, 2013

Our family loves pete the cat. My 5 yr old is taking a pete the cat class at the library next week. We can't wait! Even my 2 yr olds love these stories! And the illustrations are excellent!

Pete

July 07, 2016

Don't judge me, it was a gift and it counts. :-)

Sandy

September 21, 2021

Ever since my grandson laid eyes on this book, we have read it at least once a day. I brought it home from the library and I think I have the book memorized at this point. I know I 'll have to buy a copy of it, as he’ll dig to find it amongst the pile of library books. He's only 2 years old and he already knows a good story when he finds one.The moral of the story is sharing and I like that both Pete and his friends are appreciative of each other in this story. With captivating illustrations, Pete is hungry for lunch, and decides that a sandwich is just what he wants. But, as he makes this sandwich, it just becomes bigger and bigger until finally he realizes that it’s just too big for Pete to eat on his own. The solution? After thinking about it, Pete calls up his friends and tells them to come over. I like Pete's style: he's cool, calm and collective and so are his friends. It's a feel-good story in which everyone wins. At our house, we like to talk about the illustrations after reading the story: what everyone is eating, who is eating and with what, who came together and where are they sitting, Another great Pete story for our house.

Heather

April 27, 2022

After reading Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, I picked up a pack of Pete the Cat readers at Costco for Lily. They are all cute, but none of them are quite as good as the first one.Pete the Cat's sandwich is too small, so he keeps adding stuff until it gets enormous and he realizes he needs to get help eating it. He calls all of his friends. The sandwich is good, and "sharing is cool." I loved how the "sandwich" was just a pile of random stuff, including a loaf of bread still in its bag. Very funny and a fun story about sharing.

Jen

March 31, 2021

Book Title: Pete the Cat: Pete's Big LunchAuthor/Illustrator: James DeanReading Level: 1.6Book Level: K-2Book Summary: Pete the Cat is hungry. He is going to make the grooviest sandwich ever! His sandwich might just be too big for just one cat! What is he going to do?Bookshelf Genre: Picture BooksBookshelf Mentor Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency - The sentences in the book have nice rhythm and flow. When the author poses a question, the reader is given clues as to what Pete is going to do. The reader is able to read the sentences with ease due to short length. I would have my students practice writing short sentences. I would start with 3 to 4 word sentences and using different verbs for each sentence. I would also have them per review their sentences.

Rachel

October 26, 2017

Pete the Cat takes us on another adventure as he decides what to eat for lunch. Pete is very hungry, so he decides on making a sandwich. First, he gets bread, a fish, a tomato, and mayo. His sandwich is still too small though, so he adds more and more ingredients, until finally, his sandwich is too big! What will Pete do with a sandwich that is just too big for him to eat? This fun book teaches kids about sharing. It also has good repetition to create a better understanding of the meaning of the words. I would love to read it aloud with my class.

Suzannah

January 29, 2017

Pete takes the reader on an adventure through lunch - an event to which all children can relate. Pete assembles contents of his refrigerator into a silly sandwich.This book is great. The colorful, simple illustrations hold kids' attention. The story is just silly enough to keep them engaged.I would use this book in therapy to assess several different phonemes. Also, it's an easy way to look at how the child handles books physically. It also allows me, as a clinician, to see if the client understands the humor in the story. I recommend it.

Anna

April 01, 2022

I wish they made a picture book of this story because it would make a great picture book to read aloud to kids. Since this book is an Early Reader it's not a great size to read aloud to a group of kids. However I did read this story for Story Time, but I used a flannel board and felt items of Pete's sandwich and Pete himself. So I didn't use the actual book, but I wrote out the text and did some paraphrasing to fit my needs for Story Time and used that.

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