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Kids Book
Bad Kitty
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by
Nick Bruel |
Kindergarten-Grade 3
Ostensibly about a cat that turns bad when her family runs out of
her favorite food, this is really a clever alphabet book for
kids old enough to appreciate the way words work. It will
appeal to youngsters who like their stories more naughty
than nice.
The tale opens with Kitty learning that her owners have run out of
cat food and that her only options are healthy and
nutritious edibles that run the gamut from Asparagus to
Zucchini. She reacts by doing an A-to-Z list of mischievous
things, like claw[ing] the curtains and hurl[ing] hair balls
at our heads. When her owners return with food that ranges
from An Assortment of Anchovies to Baked Zebra Ziti, Kitty
realizes she must atone for her bad behavior with a final
list of alphabetical deeds such as cleaning the cat box and
washing the car.
While the story is packed with colorful cartoon illustrations that
introduce each object, it is Kitty who steals the show with
her slyly drawn feline expressions. The illustrations are
charming (I especially like the little fang kitty develops
when she becomes bad) The book is intended for slightly
older alphabet-book fans, and the need to use the whole
alphabet results in a broader vocabulary than is found in
most children's books. It offering will attract readers with
a taste for the ridiculous. There's so much going on here
that kids will find lots to laugh about
It is wonderful for reading aloud (especially when the boys
provide Kitty's sounds effects, e.g. "hack, hack!"), and the
opportunities to point out someone else's outrageously bad
behavior are very welcome to my pair of naughty small fry.
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