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| Full-color photographs. Brief text and full-color photos portray a little girl's fun and problems with her inquisitive kitten named Pickle. |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| When we made the decision to get a pet kitten this Spring, I scrambled to find books that would give my two boys, ages 3 and 6, a preview of what life with felines would be like. You see, although I did grow up with cats this kitten would be our first family pet ever. I wanted to treat it as though we were expecting a new baby: after all, a cat could be part of our family for two decades!
After you eliminate all the kids' cat books that are too technical and wordy to make effective storytime tales, you end up with a scant handful that are appropriate for kids in my boys' age range. The Little Kitten won out because it had adorable, timeless photos and an easy-to-digest story about a little kitten growing up on a farm with his owner, a little girl names Jenny. No lectures about do's and don't's, how many shots they need, what kind of food or litter - just typical everyday things that kittens do, like climbing up into places they can't get down from and what sorts of toys they like. I found that the Little Kitten rang very true to real life. This book teaches with a story and leaves the feeding schedule and litterbox cleaning for older kids and parents to learn about somewhere else. It was just what we needed.
There are other books in the Random House Pictureback series, which I thumbed through in the bookstore; the little duck, the little puppy, the little rabbit, etc. They all seem to have a similar theme and structure to the plot, with a simple message about how to play with and treat these pets everyday. I would definitely get any one of these other Pictureback pet books someday when we decide to get other types of pets.
One caveat - in the very last picture, the "punchline" if you will, shows the kitten walking through tall grass with what appears to be a balloon with a string tied to the kitten. Common sense should tell adults that this is hazardous to any small animal, even though it was cute in the story, and I advise adults reading this book to kids to make a point of explaining that to kids. Otherwise, The Little Kitten is a very solid recommendation.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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