Mog and the Baby - Judith Kerr

Mog, Judith Kerr's expressive grey cat, acquires an admirer, a loud admirer, a very loud baby admirer... Mog and his human family have a visitor, a baby who is very taken with Mog. Hence Mog's day is ruined and she plots her escape away from the unwanted attention. However, the baby follows Mog out into the busy street. Will Mog save the day? The illustrations are clear and spare, the colours muted, the backgrounds being very pale or stark white. The text is quite small in comparison to the large page. The loveliest thing about the images in the expressive face that Mog has, she often looks fed up in this story as she's being hotly pursued and pawed ...  Read the complete review

Mog and The Baby Another in the series featuring the cute cgrey stripey cat, Mog. Although Little Miss heard the Mog books when she was younger, I notice that they have made a reappearance; I assume this is in no small measure due to the fact that she recently became the proud owner of a grey cat. ~~Story and Illustrations~~ The Mog books have 4 other main characters other than Mog; Mr and Mrs Thomas, Debbie and Nicky. Since they were published in the 1980s, they do look a tad old fashioned, but it's all very 2.4 children (although there are only 2- Mog can be the .4!) Anyway, to the story, Debbie is going to school, whilst Mrs ...  Read the complete review