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Breakfast at Bloomingdale's By: Kirsten Kemp Book Review, November 19, 2007
A Kid's Review
Cat's world is changing tremendously and she's following her and her grandmother's dream since childhood to create a clothing line called Breakfast for Bloomingdale's.
For as long as she can remember it had just been her and her grandmother Nina sewing up a storm! Her real mother never appreciated having a child so Nina became Cat's surrogate mother. Now, the one person who really loves her (Nina) has died and left Kat all alone in the world. Really, the only thing that makes sense in her life now is their dream of creating their own fashion line by winning a contest sponsored by the magical Bloomingdale's. Still truly devastated, Cat drops out of school and flees to Manhattan. But, things do not always seem to go as planned. Her boyfriend, who was going with her, decided to break up before she left. At the same moment Cat's headed to the city, determined to tackle everything on her own. Can she make her dreams come true? What kind of determination does it take to follow your own dreams?
This four star fictional novel is probably best suited for teens who want to fully understand the power of achieving your goals and love anything to do with fashion. You will never be able to put this charming, smooth flowing book down! At times, Cat does seem a little selfish and childish but I could understand the situations she was trying to handle by herself. On page two hundred and seventy four Cat anwsered Muddy by saying, " I would rather you run over my chest with a lawn mower, the blades freshly sharpened." Also, at times she is unlikable because of her decisions and the way she treats people, including her mother, new/old boyfriends, and people she encounters in New York City. On page one hundred and twenty-four Cat says to Opal, "Whatever me again and you'll wear that sapphire in your eye. Got it? Now go back to Wal-Mart." Breakfast at Bloomingdale's is an excellent, modern twist on the classic "Breakfast at Tiffany's" because of Cat's and Holly's same opinions, thoughts, and taste in clothing. After all, Cat as well as Holly Golightly are just waiting for their chance to travel in style over their own lovely moon river, just in completely different ways.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too, September 5, 2007
Kat's world is rapidly changing and she's following her and her grandmother's dream or creating their own fashion line.
For as long as she can remember, it's been just her and her grandmother, Nina, sewing up a storm. Nina became her surrogate mother, as her own mom never appreciated having a child. Now, Nina has died, leaving Kat all alone in the world, with just a plan at having her fashion line Breakfast appear at Bloomingdale's.
Kat's moved all of her belongings that Nina left her to New York City to follow their dreams.
But things don't always seem to go as planned. Her boyfriend, who was going with her, decided against the move. Now Kat's headed to the city, determined to tackle everything on her own. Can she make her dreams come true?
What kind of determination does it take to follow your own dreams? Kristen Kemp pens an emotionally charged tale of a girl doing everything in her power to hold on to her dreams, the only thing that makes sense in her life.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
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Fashion savvy and sweet, October 31, 2009
This review is from: Breakfast At Bloomingdale's (Paperback)
Cat's a girl with a dream and a plan to achieve it. She's going to New York City to be a famous fashion designer; particularly, she wants her own label to be sold at Bloomingdale's. For all of Cat's life, that's been her dream, but now she's perfectly poised to accomplish it by entering CosmoGIRL! and Bloomingdale's The Finished Line fashion design contest. Armed with access to her late grandmother Nina's bank account, killer design and sewing skills, and a one-way ticket to New York City, Cat is all ready for her new life. But once she arrives, it's a little different and harder that she expected, and adjustments will have to be made accordingly, because giving up is not an option. The competition better look out. New and improved Cat Zappe, famous designed to be, is taking New York City by fashion storm.
By no surprise, Breakfast at Bloomingdale's is all about fashion, but it's also about hard work, dreams, and relationships. Most fashion novels I've read deal with the tail end of the fashion industry, the already crafted clothes and modeling. This story gives me new respect for the designing end; I had no idea that much education, experimentation, and design went into making the finished fashion product. I also didn't know that designer hopefuls could be just as catty, for lack of a better word, as competitive models; Cat's ability to keep a cool head most of the time in these situations earned even more of my respect. I absolutely loved reading about Cat's character. She has impressive commitment and determination in reaching her goals and, more often than not, is rather smart in navigating through her relationships. I greatly admired her maturity and self control as well, and all this just made me hope she'd accomplish her dreams. Breakfast at Bloomingdale's is a thoroughly enjoyable story to read because it shows that everything, for better or worse, is interconnected, that things have a way of working themselves out in the end, and that lack of success doesn't necessarily translate into failure.
I recommend Breakfast and Bloomingdale's for fans of Violet on the Runway by Melissa Walker, Airhead by Meg Cabot, and the America's Next Top Model series by Taryn Bell as well as to any teen girl, because Cat is a characters after ever reader's heart. I look forward to reading more of Kemp's writing, particularly a possible fashion savvy sequel to this sweet book.
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