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Widget

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Widget is a story about your average kitten: very curious. Widget is goes on several small "adventures" in the story, such as trying to find out if teddy bears are really fierce creatures. The pictures in the story are mostly black and white, but are very soft and aesthetically pleasing. Widget is a great book for any person that loves cats and the way kittens love to be mischievous. Every child that I have read the story to has fallen in love with Widget. The text is funny, but not too complex for a child to understand. The pictures bring out the best parts of the text. The ending is heartwarming, where, after a long day of exploring and leaving mom's side, Widget climbs in next to her and purrs, because he is happy to be home.

I learned to read at age three (in 1958!) from this very book, and I've never forgotten it. Widget is a curious kitten who disregards his mama's admonition to "stay in the box" and climbs over the cardboard walls to have a series of increasingly frightening (though not too frightening for young children) adventures, until finally his mama finds him and takes him back home. It's a story of growing up for those who still know that going back to Mama's arms is the best ending of all.

This is almost a perfect book, though with no dust jacket...still it is from 1958 and the artwork just blows me away. I have been collecting Clare Newberry's art books about cats for a year now, and a girl at work too, is getting them. This is a charming one, and is in a 6 x 5 or so format, but with no dust jacket. All the other more modern books of hers have been a whopping 10 x 12 or so. They are all so cute, all these cats and dogs and one day I even think that I will get a book about a bunny too.