book for younger children, Few words per page. Could teach them that we can all get along even if we're different, Very simple with few words per page, Cute.
Read with Naomi amp Julia, I had no idea that this little gem of a book existed until recently, Now I am so in love with the ridiculously adorable illustrations and the sweet, simple text,
Oh, and my sixyearold son loved it, too,
A puppy joins in with a litter of kittens to spend the day, The puppy makes an awkward kitten, but the kittens never say anything, At the end, the puppy's mother comes for the puppy,
There are few words and many of them are sounds lapping/slurping milk, etc, .
There are no humans in this story,
A nice counterpoint to The Ugly Duckling, Read with myyo andyo This was a very sweet little story about a puppy who joins some kittens to play one day.
He kinda sorta thinks he might be a kitten but isn't quite sure about things like that yet, and he tries with mixed success to join them in their kittenish activities.
I use the word "story" loosely, because the books has almost no words, other than some sound effects, A book like this encourages a small child to "read" or tell the story and offer commentary on it, I have read a number of Keats's books, and I was surprised to learn that he illustrated it, because the artistic style is very different from what I'm accustomed to in Snowy Day or Whistle for Willie.
It has a comforting affect with soft lines and warm colors which would lend it to a little lapsitter, but it might entertain a Story Time group as well.
I wish I had known about this book when my children were small, because I think they would have gotten a real kick out of it.
Very cute kittens, and very silly puppy, Compared to many of Keats' earlier works that experiment with pencil, collage and watercolor, this book is not visually interesting and the text brief.
As Lu loves kittens and dogs, she enjoyed looking at the pictures, but there is little else going for this bland work.
A friendly puppy gets to spend the day with four playful kittens, and experience first hand what's it like to be a kitten for a day.
Good times were had, and friendships and memories were made, Ohfercute. A puppy thinks he's a kitten, and has a fun day playing with four little cats, This would be a great book for my wiggly little story time kids, There's not much text, so it would be great to share with my group, Most of them are betweenand, The heart of this short picture book is in the spirit of the puppy who isn't afraid to try living a new kind of life with his friends the kittens, and the willingness of the kittens to accept the intrepid puppy as one of their group just as if he looked like a cat.
There is harmony among the naturally antagonistic creatures, showing something of the kind of peace that can be enjoyed by people if we put aside our reflexive judgment of others and simply play together nicely.
Author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats has the right kind of idea with this book, Best of all, his stories tend not to be an end in and of themselves rather, they act as a bridge to the minds of readers who let the ideas expressed within the pages take them beyond the borders of their regular thinking.
Ezra Jack Keats is better at that than most picture book creators, I would give at least one and a half to Kitten for a Day, Adorable, and not a lot of text so easy for prereaders to follow on their own, A puppy decides that he wants to be a kitten for the day and realizes that it is very hard to do.
I would use this in a kindergarten classroom at the beginning of the year during writer's workshop, This would demonstrate to early writers the use of captioning illustrations when creating stories, I loved this let's pretend book, The story and illustrations would definitely appeal to a small child, It helps with the lesson about getting along with your buddies, I thought I'd seen all of Keats' wonderful books for children, but this was a new one for me, It's a cute tale about a mischievous pup who thinks he's a kitten, or at least pretends to be, while he plays with a willing litter of tiny kitties.
Caution: it's pretty adorable. It's entirely possible that "Awws" will be uttered, Can a puppy be a kitten This puppy thinks he is, As he plays with four kittens, he tumbles and stumbles, thumps and slurps, spills and falls, Then his mother arrives. Will the five new friends be able to play again Awardwinning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats's appealing illustrations will have readers
purring with contentment.
"A visually delightful book, " The Horn Book The illustrations for this are breathtakingly adorable, A little floppyeared creature befriends four kittens, one of whom is a little blackandwhite kitten with curious greengold eyes like Zelda, The kittens try to do kitten things with this new maybekitten, who doesn't do so well at the kitten things, 'cause he's an adorable little hound doglooking puppy, An adorable book about confusion, trying, failing, and then finding out who you really are,
Zelda wanted in on the action and tried to put the whole book in her very small mouth, Cute, cute illustrations! Simple text tells the story of a puppy who spends the day playing with four adorable kittens, There are great engagement opportunities my story time audience loved counting the kittens, spotting the mouse that appears part way through the story and laughing at poor puppy as he is less than successful at acting like a kitten! Not much to this one.
Cute. In this book, a puppy finds a few mischievous kittens and hands out with them, The puppy and kittens begin in a bowl that the puppy tilts while trying to join the kittens, The kittens ask the puppy if he is a kitten, to which he replies "Uhhuh, I think so, " And so begins a day of kitten activities and a few minor bumps along the way,
The illustrations give a sense of coziness and comfort, and the shenanigans into which the kittens and puppy get into are hilarious.
Grade: PreK, Kindergarten,st Grade
Topics: Animals, Playing with Others, Getting Along,