Cats from many different countries may like to do all kinds of strange and exotic things but my cat an ordinary round-the-house cat likes to hide in boxes. A rhyming text.
Mycatlikestohideinboxes is a picture puffin paperback children's book, by EveSutton the author and LynleyDodd the illustrator and author.
This book is suitable for children aged 5 -8 years old. I think a younger child would enjoy listening to the story
This book was first published in New Zealand in1974 it is the first children's book by EveSutton and Lindley Dodds first picture book.
EveSutton who is LynleyDodds cousin goes on to write older children's books while LynleyDodd's goes on writing and illustrating books for younger children .f you work with /have had or were a child after 1983 you will most likely have read Hairy Maclary
My class of 10 year old special needs children loved this book when I read to them. I also read it tomy grandson aged 5 years old he loved it too.
I read to the class from ...
Advantages: Illustrations, characters, rhymes Disadvantages: Nothing particularly special
Not sure about the product picture ciao has put up for this one, but as the title suggests, this is indeed a review for Hairy Maclary, Sit.
This is one of the series of books written by LynleyDodd and featuring the antics of the scruffy dog Hairy Maclary and his friends. I find that a successful series of kids books often relies on a strong recurring set of characters, and this is done very well throughout the books.
In this particular book, Dodd reverts to a formula that worked with the main HM book, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. It takes HM and his friends to a School of Obedience, and uses various commands to show how disobedient HM and friends can be, until all of them, such as Muffin McLay, Bottomley Potts and Schnitzel von Krumm all end up together in a pond, having run off without looking where they're going ...
Advantages: Great rhyme and illustrations. Disadvantages: None
to halls etc.
Why?...... At night SM turned into a thief.
Pilfering and pillaging anything he could get his teeth into!
One night, SM stole so many things, taking each one back to his house on the hill, he decided to pile them all up.... Unfortunately for SM they all crashed to the floor waking the family who declared:
"What a criminal cat!
Tomorrow we'll have to take EVERYTHING back."
That was enough to teach SM the error of his ways and never again did he pilfer or pillage:
' When whispers of wickedness stirred in his head,
he adjusted his whiskers and stayed home instead.'
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Style and Format
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As with all LynleyDodd's books there are alternate pages of text and illustrations.
The rhyme is brilliant and children will be joining in with the story after the second or third ...
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Product details
EAN
9780140502428
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Title
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
Author
Eve Sutton; Lynley Dodd
ISBN
0140502424
Manufacturer's product description
Cats from many different countries may like to do all kinds of strange and exotic things but my cat an ordinary round-the-house cat likes to hide in boxes. A rhyming text.
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