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Have You Got My Purr?

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This is a different twist on learning animal sounds. My boys love it (3 & 5) and ask for it repeatedly. It shows animals on a farm in their habitats. The kitten is very sweet, and I have made it into a flannel board story for my kids as well.

I really enjoyed this book because the little kitten thinks that she has lost her purr but she has really not. In the book she also goes to all of the farm animals and asks them if they have it and at the end she finds out she has it all along and her mother shows her. I hope when you read it you will enjoy it just as much as i did.

I just loved this book. The illustrations were bright and very eye catching. The kitten was just adorable. I liked how the kitten went to all of the different animals looking for its purr. This book would help kids learn all of the different sounds that animals make. It was a very cute book.

This is a wonderful story about a kitten who is in search of her purr. She explores the entire barnyard and asks all of its inhabitants but has no success. Finally when she's ready to give up, she curls up with her mom and discovers that her purr was with her the whole time.
The illustrations in this book are bright and bold and the story line is adorable. Every child will be able to relate to that wonderful feeling of curling up with someone they love.

I discovered this book at our local library and fell in love with the charming story. I instantly ordered it from Amazon, but the one I received has been re-written to be quicker and thus not as charming and sweet! This version has the kitty running from animal to animal in a panic looking for her purr, whereas the one at the library described how she went on her search through the day, and at days end she was getting quite tired by the time she talked to owl and the ending read much sweeter than this one. I don't know what year that edition was (it was hardbound - maybe that's the difference) or if it had a different publisher, but I was disappointed with this version and will continue my search for the one I fell in love with.

P.S. After posting this, I did find out that the book I bought from Amazon was published by Tiger Press and the book at the library is published by Dutton Children's Books. I do see that Amazon lists the publisher as Dutton - so no guarantee there.

When Kitten discovers that she cannot purr she goes out in the farm yard to search for it. She asks all of the animals she finds, including: Dog, Sheep, Cow, and Owl. When she returns to her mom that night she finds that her purr was with her the whole time!
This is an adorable story with fabulous illustrations. All children will be able to relate to that wonderful feeling of being curled up with the one you loves them.

Tim Warnes illustrates this gentle story of a kitten who has lost her purr, and is certain that one of the other farm animals has it. But all the animals make different noises in this gentle story of a kitten's search for her own talents.

We have looked high and low for this book to replace the one my daughter tore up as a baby. Finally found it here but it's different than the one we had as it's written in "British English" using words like "mummy" instead of "mommy", and certain phrasings being awkward and different. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but I was a little annoyed that this wasn't mentioned anywhere in the title or description.

I love this book for two reasons:

It is a good illustration for children about happiness and how the cat was looking for happiness in all the wrong places.

It is an excellent introduction to farm animals and their sounds. Most children can probably relate to the purring of a cat, but might not have yet had exposure to farm animals. This book does a good job of bridging the sound of purring of an every day cat to that of farm animals.

The illustrations in this book are beautiful and quite effectively support the prose.

The bright, large and, I might add, accurate, illustrations in this book are great, eye catching and very, very well executed! The story line is simple, a kitten who is searching for her purr. Her encounter with the barnyard animals keeps the story moving. The text is well matched with the illustrations. This is a cute warm story and is an excellent one to read with your young child. Recommend this one highly.