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Six-Dinner Sid

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This is the only kindy library book that my preschooler has found that we do not already possess! And it is fantastic. We had to order it from Granny in the UK cos its out of print in Australia. Who would be a kids author if something this good goes out of print! The black cat Sid lives at 6 different houses, has 6 different owners, 6 personalities in order to get 6 dinners! But the owners don't talk to each other so they don't know about this! Then he gets a cough and has 6 visits to the vet and 6 doses of medicine. The vet dobs him in to the owners and they are cross because they didn't know about it so they put onto 1 dinner rations. But Sid is a six-dinner-a -day-cat!! So he moves (from Aristotle St. to Pythagoras Place - nice touch) into 6 new houses and the new owners do all talk to each other and know about his little ways and don't mind.

We love this book to bits - lovely pictures and easy print for a learner 4 year old reader. A classic.

My daughter brought this home from the school library, and we instantly fell in love with it. We have a number of pets, including cats, and have our own "Six-Dinner Madeline" to boot. This book is wonderful reading for elementary school children, and anyone who loves cats.

If you like cats, you'll appreciate how this one's personality comes through. SIX-DINNER SID is a black cat who gets whatever he wants -- most of the time. It's a simple, funny story you can read over and over. The illustrations are marvelous, with bright and pastel colors, and lovely detail in the flowers, etc. You can even see the cat's individual hairs and whiskers. The streets look somehow European (the book was originally published in the UK, so I suppose that's where it's set). I love the street scene on pages 3 and 4 so much I'd like to frame it! As for the wonderful cat, the pictures really capture his personality, the angles cats love to contort into, and the idiosyncracies of catdom. How fun!

There can be no doubt what-so-ever that the author, Inga Moore, knows her cats. She has nailed them, or him, in this case, perfectly! I doubt if many people who pay attention to animals in general and cats in particular, has not known at least one cat in their life time that is quite like the loveable Sid in this story. Children absolutely love this work when it is read to them in a class setting and it is quite a popular book (still) in the school library. The nice thing about this book though is, as one reviewer has pointed out, the age of the reader really dose not matter all that much. Adults will find this work just as interesting and just as delightful as the young reader. This is certainly one you need to add to your collection. Highly recommend.

Sid lives at six houses so that he can get six dinners every day. People in the neighborhood don't talk to each other, so no one knows... It works out well until Sid gets a cold and goes to the Vet six times. The Vet tells the six "owners" that they are sharing a cat and they get very angry. Sid solves the problem in a happy ending. This is my favorite children's book!

This is a wonderful children's story. Young children are able to relate to the main character. A good book to accompany this is Charlie Anderson. Well illustrated.

Although my girls are teenagers now, this is one of the books that they always mention when we talk about favorite books from their childhood. An endearing story of a much loved cat and the community of families who feed him. A must-have for small children and a wonderful gift from grandparents.

A delightful and humorous story. Well done illustrations.

With a cover that invites you to discover what Sid's all about, this book has been a read-aloud favorite of mine for years. The repetition is fun, even for the grown-up reading it for the umpteenth time! The illustrations are great without being all cutesy and fussy. This is a book for the child in all of us, NOT for the grown-up looking for overdone pictures! Sid is not a cuddly kitten, he's a very real CAT. The author thankfully resists humanizing Sid. It all seems like a believable window in a neighborhood feline's world. However, my best rave for this is the ending, which turns the expected moral on its ear and promotes the individual! Hooray for Sid! Boo for selfish neighbors!

This tale is beautifully and humorously illustrated, and I fell in love with Sid as he stayed true to his ways as a six-dinner kind of cat. A great story for any animal-lover, child or adult!