Mermaids and kittens…could there be a better combination? This adorable chapter book series about cats who also have mermaid abilities is one to marathon read. In The Scaredy Cat, we meet three purrmaid friends: Coral, Shelley, and Angel. While Shelley and Angel are eager to go discover a treasure, Coral is nervous about leaving home. Bardhan-Quallan’s cat chapter book offers lessons on finding the courage to leave our comfort zones. The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter Swiftclaw is a brave warrior who makes the difficult decision to leave their Clan behind and embrace life as a rogue. Fueled by a longing for freedom and independence, Swiftclaw ventures into the unknown, facing the harsh realities of survival outside the structured Clan life. On July 26, 2016, Random House and Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that the Cat in the Hat was running for US president. [69] [70] [71] [72] Parodies [ edit ] One clan struggles for survival as prey becomes scarce, pushing them to the brink of starvation. ThunderClan’s resourceful warrior, Reedfur, leads the task of developing innovative hunting techniques and fostering alliances with other Clans to ensure the collective survival of their clan. Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the police came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the premises. Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever. The officers bade me accompany them in their search. They left no nook or corner unexplored. At length, for the third or fourth time, they descended into the cellar. I quivered not in a muscle. My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence. I walked the cellar from end to end. I folded my arms upon my bosom, and roamed easily to and fro. The police were thoroughly satisfied and prepared to depart. The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but one word, by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness.

Buell, Ellen Lewis (17 March 1957). "High Jinks at Home". The New York Times Book Review, as quoted in Nel 2007, pp.9–10. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) You ever encounter a comic so pretty that it feels like a dare? Like picture books, comics are an infinite juggling act between the eye and the ear. Or maybe I should say between the eye and the brain. On the one hand you have the art of the book. Some of the best comics I’ve ever read in my life have been drawn with an extremely limited hand. They get away with it because the writing’s so good. Then there is the story. Honestly, you could be holding the most gorgeously rendered art imaginable, but if it’s a book for kids then the pretty pictures just come off as a kind of amusing experiment. No more. No less. Adult comics can afford to be esoteric. Comics for kids… well, we just have the raise the bar a little higher there. There’s no room in the children’s book world for authors and illustrators to indulge only themselves. That isn’t to say a comic creator can’t go ludicrously complex with the art, of course. As long as the story can support the extravagance, I say go wild. And were this an official challenge, I’d say that artist Ursula Murray Husted took me up on it. Her debut middle grade graphic novel A Cat Story is a lush, sprawling, ultimately very sweet story of two cats and their search for a home of their own. It is simultaneously the grandest and quietest storytelling I have witnessed in a very long time.The Cat in the Hat has been transposed into three videogames of the same title. The first game was published in 1997. A second videogame, based on the 2003 film, was published in the same year, followed by a third videogame in 2005.

With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend. Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair, or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses. If I arose to walk it would get between my feet and thus nearly throw me down, or, fastening its long and sharp claws in my dress, clamber, in this manner, to my breast. At such times, although I longed to destroy it with a blow, I was yet withheld from so doing, partly by a memory of my former crime, but chiefly -- let me confess it at once -- by absolute dread of the beast. Geisel variously stated that the book took between nine and 18 months to create. [16] Donald Pease notes that he worked on it primarily alone, unlike with previous books, which had been more collaborative efforts between Geisel and his wife, Helen. [17] This marked a general trend in his work and life. As Robert L. Bernstein later said of that period, "The more I saw of him, the more he liked being in that room and creating all by himself." [18] Pease points to Helen's recovery from Guillain–Barré syndrome, which she was diagnosed with in 1954, as the marker for this change. [18] Publication history [ edit ] Bennett Cerf (pictured in 1932), the head of Random House, negotiated a deal that allowed both Random House and Houghton Mifflin to publish versions of The Cat in the Hat.Create a warrior cat character who possesses a unique and mysterious power. How does this power shape their destiny within their own Clan and the broader Warrior Cats world? You can use our Warrior Cats Name Generator or this list of Warrior Cat Suffixes to get some character name ideas. Geisel gave varying accounts of how he conceived of The Cat in the Hat. According to the story Geisel told most often, he was so frustrated with the word list that William Spaulding had given him that he finally decided to scan the list and create a story out of the first two words he found that rhymed. The words he found were cat and hat. [8] In "How Orlo Got His Book", he described Orlo, a fictional, archetypal young child who was turned off of reading by the poor selection of simple reading material. [14] To save Orlo the frustration, Geisel decided to write a book for children like Orlo but found the task "not dissimilar to... being lost with a witch in a tunnel of love". [14] He tried to write a story called "The Queen Zebra" but found that both words did not appear on the list. In fact, like Geisel wrote in "My Hassle with the First Grade Language", the letters "q" and "z" did not appear on the list at all. He then tried to write a story about a bird, without using the word bird as it did not appear on the list. He decided to call it a "wing thing" instead, but struggled as he discovered that it "couldn't have legs or a beak or a tail. Neither a left foot or a right foot." [15] On his approach to writing The Cat in the Hat he wrote, "The method I used is the same method you use when you sit down to make apple stroodle [sic] without stroodles." [15] Both Helen E. Walker of Library Journal and Emily Maxwell of The New Yorker felt that the book would appeal to older children as well as to its target audience of first- and second-graders. [30] The reviewer for The Bookmark concurred, writing, "Recommended enthusiastically as a picture book as well as a reader". [31] In contrast, Heloise P. Mailloux wrote in The Horn Book Magazine, "This is a fine book for remedial purposes, but self-conscious children often refuse material if it seems meant for younger children." [32] She felt that the book's limited vocabulary kept it from reaching "the absurd excellence of early Seuss books". [32]

National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Archived from the original on February 5, 2009 . Retrieved August 19, 2012. And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast -- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed -- a brute beast to work out for me -- for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God -- so much of insufferable wo! Alas! neither by day nor by night knew I the blessing of Rest any more! During the former the creature left me no moment alone; and, in the latter, I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight -- an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off -- incumbent eternally upon my heart !I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind. We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. Menand, Louis (16 December 2002). "Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us". The New Yorker . Retrieved 9 November 2013.

A collection of seven Pete the Cat stories, all also available individually, either as My First I Can Read books, or as stand-alone story books. Five of the seven selections here can also be found in 5-Minute Pete the Cat Stories. Contents include: Willow Biden isn’t just the White House cat, she’s the first-ever White House cat—and in this book, she gives her own tour of the People’s House. I don’t know what came first: my love of cats or my love of books. I suspect they were intertwined, as I grew up fascinated by the majestic felines I saw in picture books and read about in my early readers. Books and cats are just the perfect pairing! And I’m clearly not alone, as you’ll see in this list of the best cat books for kids. These 21 cat books for kids feature felines in all their glory, mischief, and magic. Picture Books About Cats The Cat from Hunger Mountain by Ed Young

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The cool thing about this early reader is that all the stories are true. Readers meet three real cats in photo stories detailing their adventures. it’s pretty adorable, and sure to delight its intended audience. for old-folks like me, the artwork satisfies more than the story itself, even if you’re a fogey who still craves animal-adventure tales. there are harrowing moments—especially the seafaring episode—and it is certainly unlike others of its kind, but it just didn’t put hearts in my eyes the way other animal-adventures have. and that’s fine—trix are for kids and all that. i enjoyed reading it, but it didn’t leave much of a lasting impression on me.