Negative Cat is a 2021 picture book by Sophie Blackall. As I’ve previously mentioned, I saw and met Sophie Blackall at the Children’s Literature Conference. […]
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat had me at the title. With a title like this–long, exaggerated, and with alliteration–meant this was […]
The Cat at Night
In his thoughtful afterword to Dahlov Ipcar’s 1969 picture book The Cat at Night, scholar Carl Little mentions that Ipcar said each of her books […]
Spooky
Sally Anne Garland’s 2025 picture book Spooky is good, focused, unified, simple picture book. I use those terms because some picture books are quite complicated […]
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Recently I read The Tiger Who Came to Tea. It was the first time–yes, I’m decades late to the party–and I loved it. This started […]
Ruffles and the Teeny, Tiny Kittens
Yes, this is another book in the Ruffles series. (I previously discussed Ruffles and the Bouncy Ball and Ruffles and the Red, Red Coat. ) […]
Cats Love Books, Too
Author-illustrator Maria Coco has published books before in Spain, but her picture books Dogs Love Books, Too (2024) and Cats Love Books, Too (2025) are […]
My Pillow Keeps Moving!
I recently picked up Laura Gehl’s 2018 My Pillow Keeps Moving!…and I don’t know why. I don’t mean that dismissively: I enjoyed the book, and […]
Raj the Bookstore Tiger
Since I did a dog book yesterday, I read a cat book today: Raj the Bookstore Tiger, a 2011 picture book by Kathleen T. Pelley. […]
Today I read…
Today I read Scamp (2025) by Anden Wilder. Scamp is a picture book about a house with two cats…only one of them is the little […]