Cats in the Dark - Hardcover

Rowinski, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892724277 ISBN 13: 9780892724277

Publisher: UNKNO, 1991

Synopsis

When the children wake at midnight because of tremendous racket throughout the lighthouse, they expect to find an army of cats turning the place to jumble

About this title

About the Author:

Children's book author Kate Rowinski was born in the Midwest, but now lives on the lighthouse-studded coast of Maine.

From School Library Journal:

PreS?Cats cavorting in a lighthouse in the dead of night create so much havoc and noise that they wake the two children who live there. Following the beam from the lighthouse lantern as it sweeps from room to room, Jill and her brother see that they have been invaded by "...a million or so cats." The rhythmic, rhyming text describes what the children see, and what readers can also see in the bold, graphic, yellow-and-black illustrations. "Cats in the cupboard. Cats here and cats there./Cats chasing yarn balls. Cats everywhere!" The book is interesting and appealing to this point, but then it suddenly goes off track. The cats all disappear without any explanation, leaving only the children's own small kitty. Readers will agree with the youngsters in the text: "This just cannot be!" It is not clear how one kitten could have created all the disturbance, and there is no indication that it was all a dream. Readers will want to know where all the animals came from, and where they went. Stick with Wanda Gag's Millions of Cats (Sandcastle, 1977).?Virginia Golodetz, Children's Literature New England, Burlington, VT
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About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0892724277
• ISBN 13: 9780892724277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32