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Time for Horatio

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I bought this book for several reasons. I enjoy cats and my son was in the air force in London, where I was fortunate enough to visit him. The illustrations are beautiful and brought back memories of my trip. I enjoyed the story line and the peace/cooperation theme certainly needs to be stressed today. I will use the book to share what I enjoyed in England with my granddaughters, they love cats too. I will use the illustrations to talk about our world today.

"Time For Horatio" is a delightful book for children with a valuable lesson about the importance of kindness and understanding in making the world a better place. The book also offers a delightful tour of London, and the illustrations are wonderful. I'm using it with my second grade students and they love it.

I got this cute book for a present (I'm friends with an art lover who likes cats as much as I do, especially brown tabbies) and was really surprised to read the Library journal review when I came to Amazon to buy more copies for my neices and nephews. The fact that Amazon would leave that review right up front ahead of LATER reviews by real people, tempts me to buy elsewhere. Why is that Amazon??

Further, I can't believe a sincere library editor would pick apart every bit of the book like that - the pictures, the story, the history, the lessons! Why shouldn't a kitten be "predictably adorable"? Since when can't a children's book have humans that look "ameturish"? This isn't intended for a gallery. And how many kids picture books are "literary" works? This plot works just fine. Heidi is just one more person being mean and I hope she never screens books at our public library!

The National Be Kind to Animals Week is coming up next month and I think this book has a perfect message (though the exercises could be more explicit in this context). The illustrations are lovely, and I think it is just wonderful to give kids a pictoral tour of another country. It makes me want to go there, myself! They even learn something quite interesting about 'mean time'!

The world is getting smaller and people need to be more compassionate and conscientous in general; and we - in the USA - do not have the advantage that European youngsters have, living a short hop from a multitude of other countries where art, history, architecture, and culture go back over a thousand years. I think this book is a timely message and a good education for kids in more ways than one. Thank you Ms. Paine! I'm going to be giving it out for alot of birthdays this year.