the commercials lied

“That cat isn’t really dancing. They just turn the film back and forth so it looks as if he’s dancing.” 

How disappointing. Ramona dozed while another cat-food commercial appeared. She awoke enough to watch a big yellow cat ignore several brands of cat food before he settled down to eat a bowl of dry food silently. That’s funny, thought Ramona. When Picky-picky ate dry cat food, he ground and crunched so noisily she could hear him from any room in the house, but television cats never made any sound at all when they ate. The commercials lied. That’s what they did. Ramona was cross with cat-food commercials. Cheaters! She was angry with the whole world.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. HarperCollins. 1981. 208 pages.