Does your cat like to hide in boxes (My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes - Eve Sutton)

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Product:	My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes - Eve Sutton
Date:	17/02/08 (124 review reads)
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Advantages: Really good to read Illustrations good too

Disadvantages: none

My cat likes to hide in boxes is a picture puffin paperback children's book, by Eve Sutton the author and Lynley Dodd the illustrator and author.
This book is suitable for children aged 5 -8 years old. I think a younger child would enjoy listening to the story

This book was first published in New Zealand in1974 it is the first children's book by Eve Sutton and Lindley Dodds first picture book.
Eve Sutton who is Lynley Dodds cousin goes on to write older children's books while Lynley Dodd's goes on writing and illustrating books for younger children .if you work with /have had or were a child after 1983 you will most likely have read Hairy Maclary



My class of 10 year old special needs children loved this book when I read to them. I also read it to my grandson aged 5 years old he loved it too.

I read to the class from a big book A 3 size. My grandson read from a standard book sized 22.2 x 18.6 x 0.4 cm. There are 32 pages. This book is available as a soft paperback or a hardback book, I have a feeling it is also available as a board book too.

Have you a cat? If so then it is highly likely that your cat likes to hide in boxes too. I know when we owned a cat ours did. Our cat would find a box discarded in a dark warm corner climb in it and go to sleep.


Now are you sitting comfortably then I will begin to tell you about the story.

The story begins and we are told, my cat likes to hide in boxes.
The story continues with each page featuring a cat from a different country. Underneath a picture of each cat there are some words "The cat from" then the name of the country "Spain, France, Norway, Brazil, Germany, Greece and Japan. Then on the opposite page there is a statement about that cat so for example "The cat from France .... Likes to sing and dance" "The cat from Brazil caught a chill" After each double page of a cat from a different country we turn the page and we see an illustration of a cat and a box and the words But my cat likes to hide in boxes.

The book finishes Cats from many different countries may like to do all kinds of strange and exotic things, but my cat, an ordinary round-the-house cat, likes to hide in boxes.

This book is written in rhyming text, fun to read and hear. The text is repetitive so children soon learn the text and will soon recognise each word. My pupils some able to read some not soon learnt the words and joined in reciting the story as it was read to them. . When I read the book sometimes I would make it fun by putting on a foreign accent

The illustrations are very good each cat is dressed in a way relating to his country, for example the cat from France is wearing a beret.


This book was good enabled us to talk about other countries looking at maps and costumes
You could extend this book as you like. Our topic other countries developed from this book we did foods from other countries.

We used boxes and toy cats as props for this story. We also used a beret a fan a tissue for the cat from Brazil who caught a chill, we had a toy aeroplane, a card doorway a toy violin. We also did a play about this book for the parents. Each child was a different cat from a different country dressed up with the costume of that country with the relevant prop. Then we had one child as my cat he had a cardboard box of course.

This book was good enabled us to talk about other countries looking at maps and costumes, as well as just having a fun time.

Yes I would defiantly recommend this book both for your child and you to read to your child. The authors won the prestigious Esther Glen Award for this book, in my opinion they certainly deserved it.
You can buy a soft back standard size copy of this from Penguin books the publishers of little puffin books for its R R P of £4.99 http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,97 80140502428,00.html
A standard size soft back book is available from Amazon toohttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Likes-Hide-Boxes-Pictur e-Puffin/dp/0140502424 for £3.99
WH Smiths sell it for £3.99 too

Hardback available from www.lovereading4schools.com/ Price: £11.24 - R R P £14.99


The big book version great for reading to the class is available from http://www.bags-of-books.co.uk/lfbks1.htm for £14.50.
Have fun reading this book , I know I did .

Summary: A rhyming book for children about cats