I Love Cats!

by Sue Stainton, Bob Staake (Illustrator)

Overview

Cat lovers of all ages will revel in this delightful ode to feline friends!

By bestselling author-illustrator duo Sue Stainton and Bob Staake, this companion to the wildly popular I Love Dogs! is full of hairy cats and scaredy cats, dancing cats and prancing cats—all of them ready to steal your heart through vibrant illustrations and energetic text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062438829
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	12/26/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sue Stainton is an art director and lives with her husband and three boys in southwest England. She is the author of many books for children, including I Love Dogs!; the bestselling Santa’s Snow Cat, The Lighthouse Cat, and The Chocolate Cat, all illustrated by Anne Mortimer; and Christmas Magic, illustrated by Eva Melhuish.

Bob Staake has written and/or illustrated more than sixty books, including The Red Lemon, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year. He has been a cover artist for The New Yorker since 2006, and his November 17, 2008, Barack Obama victory cover was named the Best Magazine Cover of the Year by Time magazine. He lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. You can visit him online at www.bobstaake.com.

Editorial Reviews

10/01/2017
PreS-K— Cat lovers unite! Those who adore feline friends will rejoice in this whimsical title for young children. There is not much in way of a plot, as the purpose is more for decoding words and objects (think One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss), but who cares! Staake has a deft touch for creating expressive and animated cats, favorites including the "scaredy cats," "prancing cats," and "snuggling cats." VERDICT Children who love cats will not be disappointed with this fun picture book filled with plenty of cat-titude! Perfect for one-on-one and small group sharing.— Maria Alegre, The Dalton School, New York

School Library Journal

2017-09-18
Any cat will tell you, all cats are perfect!"Cats, / cats, / cats. / I love cats!" A brown-skinned girl with her dark hair in a yellow bow expresses her love of felines of every stripe and type. She loves big ones and small ones, thin ones and fat ones. "Hairy cats, / scaredy-cats. / Angry cats, / cool cats." She loves cats that hop and cats that flop. She loves cats that stand on people's heads and cats that stay in bed. Everywhere she turns as she walks through a town full of other people reacting (mostly in dismay) to the abundance of active cats, she sees a different kind of cat; and she loves them all. "Cats in your pocket, / cats in the drawer. / cats in the kitchen, / cats at the door. // Cats are friends, / cats are mates. / Cuddly cats or crazy cats… // Cats are great!" British author Stainton follows her I Love Dogs! (2014) with the obligatory companion for the kitty cat set. Staake teams with her again to provide the bright, digitally created, full-bleed cartoon illustrations of green and red and spotted (and plaid!) cats enacting the little girl's rhymed paean to pusses. The frenetically goofy visual narrative ends with her parents handing her a little, gray kitten of her very own.Feline fanatics will happily chant along. (Picture book. 2-7)

Kirkus Reviews