Review: Downer of a story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
I think the paper version of this book has illustrations...when reading this on the Kindle, nothing of the artwork shows up except for captions and box lines where it seems a picture would go. The story itself I found to be depressing. Nobody seems to genuinely love the cat except for the little girl. When the girl goes on a trip with her father, the mother sends the girl letters she swears the cat wrote. The cat is taken care of in the girl's absence mainly because no one wants to see the girl upset when she comes back, but the poor animal keeps getting into situations that leave it bloodied, cut, nearly dead. Somehow the cat survives to see its later years and everyone (except the girl) seems to get gung ho about disposing of it. I would not recommend reading this to small children --- I think it'd be too much of a bummer for little ones.