Matilda's Cat
With Audio Recording
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
This delightful picture book with Emily Gravett’s signature twist ending sweetly depicts the relationship between a child and her beloved pet.
Matilda is desperate to figure out what her cat will enjoy. She tries everything she can think of: climbing trees, playing with wool, even tea parties and dress-up games, but as Matilda gets more and more creative in her entertainment attempts, her cat moves from unimpressed to terrified. Will Matilda ever figure out what her cat likes?
In the style of Dogs and Monkey and Me, this young picture book from Emily Gravett is an insightful, fond, and funny look at the relationship between a little girl and her cat that’s sure to strike a chord with anyone who’s ever loved a pet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gravett's humor generally runs from giddy to Gothic; in this story, it's toward the sweeter end of the spectrum. Dressed in a cat costume, Matilda makes ambitious plans for her cat and her cat ignores them. The text consists of pencil-scrawled lists of things that her cat "likes," which get crossed out as they fail to prove true. "Matilda's cat likes playing with wool," writes Gravett (Again!) as the cat cowers behind the yarn basket. Matilda tries stacking cardboard boxes into a playhouse ("playing with wool, boxes") and pedaling a trike ("playing with wool, boxes, and riding bikes!"); the cat leaps in the other direction. It turns out that a good cuddle is all it wants. The cumulative pile-up of failures, comic in itself, is augmented with many smaller giggles (a tea party in which Matilda gets all the treats and the cat is left with a banana). Both cat and child project a wild and humorous range of emotion, from the cat's terror at a canine shadow puppet to Matilda's perturbation that her pet would rather lick itself indecorously than participate in her best-laid plans. Ages 4 8.
