Review: Another Pat Hatt keeper
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
Just when you think you’ve seen all the aces up Pat Hatt’s sleeve, you encounter this book. I don’t know, but right at the get-go, I found ‘Catality’ extremely hilarious—and I’m in my late thirties. If someone like me could find this book amusing and entertaining, imagine the kids I’m reading this story to.Pat Hatt’s book has been popular in our home ever since ‘The Cosmic League’. This time, it’s a superhero named Catality who saves reality from destruction. Wait, “reality” and not cities or countries or planets in distress? Yes, author Pat Hatt has managed to slip in some fancy physics thing here, but it still comes off as a very readable tale about good versus evil. What’s more, the concept of having different realities opens up creative opportunities for fantastic beings (skunks with elephant tusks, for example) and different villains that actually made my kids cringe and howl and laugh in relief. And like other Pat Hatt books for children, ‘Catality’ is told in a rhyming narrative that’s as much to read aloud to young kids as it is so much fun to act out.Overall, ‘Catality’ needs no further endorsement—just check out the few sample pages and you’ll see how it will instantly “click” with kids. Most importantly, there is a moral lesson, as always, and this one inspires a deeper (and perhaps fun) discussion of the value of always choosing to do what is best for the greatest number. Get a copy—and if this is the first Pat Hatt book you’ve seen, check out his other works. I’m sure the kids will love them, too.