This Little Kitty

by Karen Obuhanych

Overview

With a bold, graphic style and a bouncy, rhyming text, this picture book catches rascally kittens being their adorable (and mischievous!) selves from morning to nap to night.

This little kitty starts the day and meows, “Wake up! It’s time to play! All the little kitties get out of bed. Their bellies grumble—it’s time to be fed."
Read along as these frisky felines pounce and play, claw and climb, and snack and sleep—until daylight fades and these little kitties are ready to receive some love and affection. Filled with bright and playful illustrations, here is an adorable picture book by debut author-illustrator Karen Obuhanych, featuring many delightful cats—all brimming with purrsonality—that will charm cat lovers and kids alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593435144
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	416,970
Product dimensions:	9.88(w) x 9.81(h) x 0.41(d)
Lexile:	AD450L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Karen Obuhanych is the illustrator of the upcoming Annie's Cat Is Sad (Feiwel and Friends). She was raised in California, where she enjoyed the outdoors, sports, and doing anything creative. Inspired by annual trips to Hawaii, where her father grew up, Karen moved to Oahu to attend the University of Hawaii at Manoa and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. Karen currently resides on the Big Island of Hawaii. This Little Kitty is her debut author/illustrator book. Visit her at ktoart.com and follow her on Instagram at @kto_art.

Editorial Reviews

2022-10-12
Five frisky felines have an eventful day.

A black cat with wide eyes starts the morning off right: “Wake up! It’s time to play!” Four other bedraggled cats stretch, yawn, and get ready for breakfast. In rollicking rhyme, the kittens find their groove: “It’s playtime now! / Let’s crouch… / coil… / pounce! / A feather, / a mouse, / a ball to bounce!” Then, with a swift page turn, the kittens are back to snoozing. “Whew. Playtime is / over and done. / And, oh, what’s this? / A patch of sun?” Too tempting to resist. Filling her book with catnaps, clawed curtains, and hairballs, Obuhanych (making her authorial debut) clearly knows her subject well. But her illustrations are where the kittens come to life; each furball has their own distinct personality, especially through half-lidded stares as they deliberately get into mischief. When the day finally comes to a close, yellow eyes peer out from the darkness. This little kitty is ready for a nighttime adventure, too. Readers get only a glimpse of humans’ limbs as a pair of brown legs swing from the bed or brown- and light-skinned hands reach down to ruffle fur. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Sure to have cat lovers rejoicing. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews