Have You Seen My Cat?: A Slide-and-Peek Board Book (The World Of Eric Carle)

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In this charming board book adaptation of Eric Carle’s popular story, Have You Seen My Cat?, little boy worries about his missing cat and travels to different places in search of his pet. The sturdy pages of this board book slide out to reveal the numerous feline counterparts--including lions, leopards, and tigers--the boy encounters along the way. It isn’t until the last page that he finds his missing pet—and receives a wonderful surprise!

Series: The World of Eric Carle

Board book: 16 pages

Publisher: Little Simon; Reissue edition (June 23, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 141698514X

ISBN-13: 978-1416985143

Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 5 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #40,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #166 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Pets #242 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Cats #939 in Books > Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Activity Books

Age Range: 1 - 3 years

Grade Level: Preschool and up

HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAT? is now a favorite at our house. It did not excite me when I received it as a shower gift. I said something polite, and thought that we would not get much use out of it. I was not wild about Eric Carle's collage-based pictures, and the very simple text seemed dull. However, I am not the audience for this book. My 10-½ month old baby tells me that HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAT? is a lot of fun! Reading it at his speed has taught me to love it too!I am also happy to note that an older baby we know, close to two years old, also likes this book. So it is going to be a good book for a while!The illustrations are very colorful, and overall a little more detailed than THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, the book that taught me to love Eric Carle's work. They look like collages with details added in crayon and pencil. My baby loves these pictures. I think it is the combination of color, simple lines and detail.The text initially seems way too simple. The question and reply "Have you seen my cat?" and "This is not my cat!" are repeated nine times in the book. At the end, of course, the boy finds his cat and says, "This is my cat!" This initially seemed insanely dull, but Carle is an artist, and there is method to his madness.If you just focus on the words, HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAT? is monotonous. However, there is a lot of room here to talk about what we are seeing. If you follow the story told in the pictures, you see that the boy takes a trip around the world looking for his cat. The people we ask for the cat are: a businessman, an American cowboy, a Mexican man on a burro, a South American Indian man, two African women, an Arab in the desert, a man from India who looks to be a farmer, a Persian prince, and finally a man in a park with his wife and child.

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