Sylvie Recommends: CAT!

Sylvie has a new favourite book that she can't stop babbling about. It's called Cat by Matthew Van Fleet and everyone in this house has now become deeply, intimately familiar with it. I know this book better than I know my husband. I know this book better than I know I'll need another coffee before I can face reading it again.

Actually, it's not that bad. The first fifty or so times we read it together were fun. It's got many, many good photos of cats, a rollicking rhyme, and lots of pull-tabs and flaps and so on. It's even got a squeaky toy that Sylvie can actually make squeak -- no mean feat where baby books are concerned as many of them of them contain squeaky toys or sound buttons are too difficult for little hands to manipulate.

The best thing about this book is the way Sylvie has now begun to say the word "CAT!" Of course she calls ducks, dogs, and lemurs "CAT!" too, but with the incredible diversity of cats pictured in this book, who can blame her? Perhaps she will grow up to rework the system of biological classification, irrefutably demonstrating that the first forms of life on this planet were not simple cells -- prokaryotes -- but teensy tiny, practically invisible "CATS!"

Even Luke knows this book by heart. As an added bonus, he can now spell the word "CAT!" Note Sylvie's look of intense concentration.

Comments

[fayrene]

The Van Fleet DOG book is a big hit over here. I have his Tails on Lucinda's Amazon wishlist, it also looks good!

[melanie]

We have the Alphabet book which is a big hit over here too. But I know what you mean about "being able to face that book again." Moira was obsessed with Wacky Wednesday (a Dr. Seuss book) for months and I was going a little nutty having to read it So Many Times a day.

[Kerry Clare]

I worry more that I annoy Harriet by reading Mr. Brown Can Moo over and over again, and reciting it whenever we're walking down the street.

PS- Sylvie can TALK?? Oh my, we're lagging behind here...