Not my favorite volume, mostly because I'm not fond of children, especially the younger ones lol I don't know if the following counts as a spoiler but just to be safe - POSSIBLE SPOILERS ahead!

At first, I was so confused by the story. The family had gone away for a week, which I don't think it takes that long to have a baby? I'm not sure, but it seems a bit long. Plus, the child is a young toddler, not a newborn! I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it took until after the catlympics concluded before my mind considered adoption as a factor, which proved to be the case just a couple pages after my thought! It was a small thing but made me feel special haha

Hungry kitty is now my favorite because she kee0s bringing up tacos and I LOVE tacos. I also learned a new word - "caterwauling" which means to make a shrill howling noise like that of a cat!

Finally, at the back of the book, there's two pages about training your cat to follow commands. I know this to be possible because my cat, Mittens, may she rest in peace, was a very smart cat and I didn't even have to train her - she learned to sit on command on her own! I've always been so proud of her :')

Overall, not my favorite volume, but it wasn't a terrible read, either. ( )

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Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Chapter book #4

Kristy Pratt
2/1/15
Reading Log Opinion Response for Bad Kitty Meets the Baby
I had mixed feelings about the book, Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, after I read it. I liked this chapter book for a couple of reasons. First, it was filled with clever and funny narration and situations. For example, Kitty’s family went away and Uncle Murray came to housesit and pet sit for Kitty. While there, Kitty wreaks havoc and Uncle Murray has to call the Fire Department every day that he is there because someone or something is stuck in the tree. On day four, he calls and says, “Hello, Fire Department? Hi. You’re not going to believe this, but this time I’m the one stuck in the tree. It’s kind of a funny story. You see…Hello? Hello?” Situations like this one occur throughout the book and are pretty amusing. Another reason I enjoyed this book was because of the “Uncle Murray’s Fun Facts” that were presented every couple of chapters. In these two page spreads, real facts about cats are explained in a playful way. This allowed the reader to learn interesting facts without being bored and wanting to skip past these pages. The third reason I enjoyed this book was the way the author told the story through an animal’s point-of-view. The reader was able to experience how a cat perceives a new dog, a new baby and other everyday encounters, which was the main idea of the story. After Kitty is finally getting used to a new dog being in the house, another new member of the family is introduced. Kitty thinks it is a weird looking dog or cat and when the neighborhood cats are invited over to meet the new “animal”, they enter it in the Kitty Olympics and in the end realizes that it is a baby. Kitty then also learns to like the adopted baby and accepts him and the dog as part of the family. The book uses these situations to give human-like characteristics to Kitty.
Although this was a cute book that held my interest and made me laugh, there were several aspects that I did not like. One, the layout of the book was confusing. I realized about half-way through the story that it was set-up like a comic strip, but with each section being a page. This was not obvious at first and was a little hard to correctly follow along. Also, at the bottom of many pages were incomplete and grammatically incorrect sentences or “thoughts” of some of the characters. These were printed in dark grey on a light grey background, with text that was very small and hard to read. I actually did not even notice it until I was half way through the book and ended up having to go back to the beginning and read the pages that I had missed. Finally, the third aspect of this book that I did not like, was the way the narrator switched between several characters without warning and made it difficult to comprehend who was talking. I had to study the pictures to understand who was narrating at certain points. I believe this would be even more difficult for a child to correctly comprehend. ( )