Negative Cat

Author & Illustrator: Sophie Blackall

A boy wants a cat desperately. He is begging his parents while shopping, while bathing and even while reading a bedtime story. Finally, his parents agree. They adopt a cat but the cat turns out to be an introvert. How the boy turns around the cat’s behavior and not only makes his cat happy but an entire community of cats purring is the rest of the story.

Sophie Blackall is a decorated storyteller. She brings the boy’s joy, despair and triumph to life with her illustrations. My daughter really loved the page where the boy gets to choose a cat from a “stable” of cats at the shelter. She even picked her own cat to adopt from the picture. She also noticed that we had read the book that his mom was reading to the boy at bedtime. The book was “They all saw a cat“. I thought that was a nice touch by the author to call out yet another decorated book.