A Shy Little Cat, by Evi Marami (AKAKIA Publications, 2020, 13 Pounds British [$17.94], 52 pages)
After reading A Shy Little Cat only twice, we got it! It finally made creative sense. A long book at 52 pages (long enough to have an attached ribbon bookmark), and a clever book that just might be overdoing it - might, but maybe not.
Made for little hands, Shy is a sturdy little book with thick, shiny pages to last and last. Little ones will love the colored letters (not so much, the parents) and, if pointed out, will learn the patterns. Rhymes continue from page to page.
A webpage to go along with the book has instructions and playing cards to accompany the board gameboard in the back of the book plus you get stick puppets. And detailed illustrations that border on scary, so help your child through this, the first time.
And the Story is. . . .
A shy little cat wants to meet a friend and does mange to meet a lot of strange characters - animals doing strange things like 'a stripy shark baking cakes with mustard!' Instead of a countdown, the book has a count-up of one little X, two little X, three little X up to 12 and then our shy little cat goes around the world from Europe to Australia to the US to Asia and more - again meeting many animals doing un-animal things. Our shy little cat grew up and came home with a plan to teach others how to make a friend.
All in all, a long little book with a lovely story to tell and plenty of fun animals and rhyme-y words to remember.
"If only we could see the world through children's eyes, everything would make so much more sense. . ." (E. Marami)
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