Itty Bitty Kitty and the Rainy Play Day

by Joan Holub, James Burks (Illustrator)

Overview

It’s a drippy-droppy, plippy-ploppy, rainy, gray, can’t-play-outside day—which means that Ava and Itty Bitty Kitty are stuck inside! When Ava and her giant cat run out of things to do, they invent their own games and have a rainy play day that is absolutely purr-fect.

From New York Times bestselling author Joan Holub and award-winning illustrator James Burks comes this story of overcoming boredom with an unlikely friend! Featuring lively, bouncy text and bold, colorful artwork, this picture book is purr-fect for pet lovers and their parents alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062322203
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/29/2016
Series:	Itty Bitty Kitty Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Joan Holub is the New York Times bestselling author of Mighty Dads. She is also the author and/or illustrator of over 130 other books for children, including the picture books Zero the Hero and Little Red Writing, a School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews Best Book, and is coauthor of the bestselling Goddess Girls and Grimmtastic Girls middle grade series. She has two cats named Chip and Boo. You can visit her online at www.joanholub.com.

James Burks has spent the last eighteen years working in the animation industry on various movies and television shows, such as Nickelodeon's Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! He is the author-illustrator of several children's books, including Gabby & Gator, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and the Bird & Squirrel graphic novels. He also illustrated The Monstore by Tara Lazar.

Editorial Reviews

2015-11-25
Ava and Itty Bitty Kitty (who is anything but itty-bitty) have a day of indoor play. What is there to do on a "drippy-droppy, plippy-ploppy, rainy, gray, can't-play-outside-day"? Well…drawing on a foggy window is fun, but that gets old. Dad doesn't know when the rain will stop, but Mom has an idea for a fun "game." "Pick up your room" is tiring, but it doesn't take long. Ava and Itty Bitty have a snack (complete with slurping and burping). They play Go Fish in Dad's study, but Itty Bitty eats a fish-emblazoned card or two. They jump on the furniture in the living room until Itty Bitty spies a fish statue on a high shelf. After the inevitable catastrophe, the sun comes out—but Itty Bitty doesn't like the puddles. Thankfully, Ava comes up with an imaginative use for the shower caps her father (an adman) has been working with, and play can resume (with some splashing and plenty of smiles). Prolific author Holub's second Itty Bitty Kitty title is energetic, rainy-day goofiness. Burks' digital, brightly colored, full-bleed illustrations are just as much fun as Ava's day; the figures' deliberately blurred edges lend fizz to the tale. Itty Bitty is bright purple; Ava and her family are white. A good addition to stuck-inside storytimes. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews