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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Here kittykittykitty - Yowch! Get this for your 4yr old!, September 29, 2005
Omigosh do we love Bad Kitty in our house! I have Bruel's other book, "Boing!", which was age-perfect for my son at the time (great book for the 2-3 yr old set). Now Bad Kitty is out and my son is now 4 1/2 and he had made us read it to him 3 times a night for the past 5 nights. So far, still fresh - even to the adults!
I seriously can't believe I'm the first one to review this book - so I get to tell you to GO GET IT NOW, it's hilarious and sweet, it reinforces the alphabet ("Hey! That's a T, Mommy!") without being painfully 'educational' (read: boring), it's very inventive, but most of all: The illustrations are just wonderful.
We love our Bad Kitty.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Alphabet book with attitude, April 14, 2006
I found this at the library the other day and took it out for my kids - when we finally got around to reading it we had to keep it longer - the boys wanted to read it every night, take it to church, take it to school...
Basically this is a quadruple alphabet book - it goes through alphabetical lists of the foods Kitty doesn't like, the myriad of ways in which she was bad, the foods her owner bought to placate her, and the many reparations Kitty then made for her badness.
The illustrations are charming (I especially like the little fang kitty develops when she becomes bad), and the need to use the whole alphabet results in a broader vocabulary than is found in most children's books. It is wonderful for reading aloud (especially when the boys provide Kitty's sounds effects, e.g. "hack, hack!"), and the opportunities to point out someone else's outrageously bad behavior are very welcome to my pair of naughty small fry.
I think this book could be enjoyed by kids of almost any age, as with "The Stinky Cheese Man," which I started to read to my eldest at age 2; kids can enjoy quite sophisticated humor given a little background information, and they really like being "in" on jokes and sharing knowing smiles. My 6-year-old is a beginning reader and can use it to sharpen his decoding skills while laughing out loud.
The only reservation I have is that it does present as "yucky" several of the foods I try to feed my family...
Still, I am adding it to my shopping cart today; as noted by other readers, it is a charming gift, and I really should pass one on to my brothers (for their kids, yeah, that's the ticket)...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Keeps my little guy giggling from start to finish, October 10, 2008
This review is from: Bad Kitty Cat-Nipped Edition (Hardcover)
This is one of the books you know that your child will cherish for a long time. I bought our copy on a whim through a school program for my three year old. When first glancing at it I thought, wow, this might be too involved for him. I decided to give it a try, thinking if he didn't like it now, maybe he will in a year or two.
It goes through every letter of the alphabet a few times and with each cycle there is a new and very silly sentence and picture for every letter. My three year old enjoyed this so much, that even now approaching four it is still a nighttime favorite. It helped with memory, letter sounds and letter recognition. He loves showing off the book to family members and the fact that he can "read" it on his own.
Because of the joy this book gives us and it's very practical use, I treasure it. There is so much value in learning through laughter!
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