The Purrfect Show (Home for Meow #1)

by Reese Eschmann

Overview

All the "awwws" of animal adoption stories are combined with sugary sweetness is this new, fun-filled chapter book series about a cat café!

Every home needs a cat!

Kira Parker lives above The Purrfect Cup, the cat café that her family owns and runs. Every day is a new adventure with her cat friends! Except lately, The King County Dog Show seems to be the only thing the regulars can talk about!

Kira doesn’t get why everyone is so excited. After all, her cat friends are much smarter and more talented than those dogs. Then Kira has a GREAT IDEA — she’s going to train the cats, and enter them in the competition. It’s sure to be her best plan yet!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338783988
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/19/2022
Series:	Home for Meow , #1
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	375,599
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Reese Eschmann holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois-Chicago and worked in schools for six years. When she’s not writing or taking naps, Reese enjoys rock climbing, baking, and making movies with her family. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and their hound dog.

Editorial Reviews

2022-04-27
Will Kira’s next great idea be a purr or a hiss?

Elementary schooler Kira and her little brother, Ryan, live with their parents above the family’s cat cafe, The Purrfect Cup. The cats therein are from a local shelter and can be adopted (except Pepper, Kira’s best feline friend). Kira likes to help out in the cafe and with the cat adoptions and often has really good ideas (though not all pan out). When she hears that the King County Dog Show will be held in Bloomington, Kira gets the idea to enter the cafe cats in the show in hopes the increased visibility will get more of them adopted. She enlists her best human friend Alex Patel, her family, and Mr. Anderson, the owner of the art shop, in her plan. The trial run is a trial ruckus. But with Ryan’s help, Kira comes up with a new idea that is fashionably feline and fills the cafe with customers (and new cat adopters). Eschmann’s series opener features an improbable plot and an unrelentingly and unrealistically upbeat tone, not to mention a cockeyed conception of cat care. There are no real laughs, and the life lessons verge on didactic. Kira and Ryan appear to be Black; theirs is a diverse community.

Litter-ally not worth a look. (Fiction. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews