Cats!

by John Hutton MD, Doug Cenko (Illustrator)

Overview

Support your toddler's developing literacy with Cats!, uniquely designed to help families establish reading habits from an early age. Play and learn with cats of all colors, shapes, and sizes! Questions within the book provide a built-in tool for grown-ups to use while reading, encouraging little ones to expand on the story. This type of interactive reading, known as "dialogic reading," is key to developing early literacy skills. Start reading and learning today with Cats!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936669585
Publisher:	blue manatee press
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Series:	DR. Books
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Dr. John S. Hutton is a pediatrician and clinical researcher at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, and owner of blue manatee children’s bookstore. Doug Cenko is an illustrator living in Chicago, IL. He has worked at an animation studio, a live special effects company and design agencies, but illustration is what he truly loves to do. When he’s not drawing, you can find him… or better yet, not find him… mastering the art of hide-and-seek with his wife and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

2017-09-18
Little readers learn about cats.All sorts of cats are on display in this board book. The text employs dialogic reading, an interactive practice wherein little ones are encouraged to answer questions the book poses and apply these interactions to their real lives. "What were they doing?" the text asks in reference to cats seen in a preceding spread. "Napping? / Purring? / Rooarrring?" Individual readers' enjoyment may vary, and caregivers might find themselves straining to supply the missing words in the introductory picture of a cat napping in a lap, captioned "Lap ____. Cat ____." The illustrations are sweet, however. Feline friends are presented in all shapes and colors, mostly house cats, but a tiger appears a couple of times and the last pages of the board book include a lion and a leopard. The critters are displayed against warm purple, green, and blue backgrounds, making the white, yellow, and orange cats pop all the more. Although the exercise feels a little forced, it does provide caregivers with a model for practicing dialogic reading when sharing other books with their little ones.Despite the title, cats are not the main event in this book, but they help the lesson go down. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews