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Cat’s Night Out

by Caroline Stutson
Illustrated by J. Klassen

        A counting book and introduction to music, dance and rhythm, Cat’s Night Out features the antics of cats who “groove and move” to the music they hear while hanging out in the alley and on city roof tops.

“From the alley, music drifts. Shadows sway to a trumpet riff…Two cats samba, dressed in white, on the rooftop Saturday night.”

As you turn the pages, the music changes to boogie, rock and then the blues, and the number of feline dancers keeps increasing. While some tango, tap dance, twist and meow, other kitties rumba, line dance, polka, and fox trot.

With eventually twenty cats forming a conga line, the racket is so great that apartment windows fly open. “Cut it out!” the neighbors shriek. “No more dancing on Easy Street!”

That breaks up the party. The cats call it a night and slip off to sleep as the subways rumble and the taxis beep.

Young children will have fun counting by twos as they follow these kitties enjoying a night on the town.

The Book

Simon & Schuster
March 2010
Hardcover
9781416940050
Fiction / Children Ages 4-8
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The Reviewer

Bob Walch
Reviewed 2010
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