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I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Lashir. And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast

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where we share books, ideas of how to wrangle the students in a pre-K library, and give

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you some different tips and tricks for connecting books to makerspace activities. Today we're

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sharing two books, the first of which is Cat Side Up, Cat Side Down, a book of prepositions.

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This book was written by Anna Rochevek. It was published by a Fuel and Friends book,

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an imprint of McMillan Publishing Group LLC in 2023. This book was on the Bank Street Best

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Children's Books of the Year list, the Texas 2x2 list, Evanston Public Libraries 101 Great

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Books for Kids 2023. Anna Rochevek grew up in Oklahoma. She was an exchange student in

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Japan in 2000 and began knitting. Her enjoyment of knitting and interest of characters from

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Japan, including Hello Kitty, has inspired her imagination and imaginary world of knitted

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characters that inhabit a world called Mochi Mochiland. These characters are used in animations,

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art installations, and knitting patterns. She has a knitting website, which we will link

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in the show notes, and pattern books. Her character-based art has been exhibited in

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the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, and Japan, and her stop-motion animation

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clients include Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, and The Washington Post.

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Her other books include multiple knitting books, including Adventures in Mochi Mochiland,

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Huge and Huggable Mochi Mochi, and Teeny Tiny Mochi Mochi, and Short Dog, Long Dog, a book

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of opposites, which was just published in February of 2025.

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So a summary of this book. This is a rhyming story of cats in amusing places and situations

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introducing prepositions like over, under, around, and many more. And this is definitely

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an adorable book, as I was saying. My wife is a huge crafty kind of person, and she thought

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this book was amazing. All of the illustrations in the book are actually images, they're pictures,

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they're not even illustrations, they're pictures of the knitted cats that the author has created.

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So like when it says cat up, it's a head of a cat sticking out of a purse, and cat side

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down is a cat's bottom end sticking out of like a bag of groceries. But everything in

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it is knitted, besides being an amazing author coming up with this creative book, being able

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to knit all of the different images, like the cats that's swept high in a way by a cat-shaped

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balloon, and the fact that it's all just knitted. It's kind of breathtaking, it's pretty amazing

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that this is a talent that she's able to use to make these pictures for this book. It's

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very impressive, I'm sure. It's also incredibly time-intensive, for sure. But I think that

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students would definitely be very kind of awestruck by looking at these pictures and

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seeing the knitted characters and seeing the different situations that they're in. Because

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I know I was just kind of staring at some of the pictures being like, how did she do

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that? Like how much time did that take? And then just the added bonus that it is teaching

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like a part of speech, it's teaching preposition. So like how things are in relation to other

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things. And all of the preposition words are bold in the book, so that makes it kind of

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easy to point them out to the students while you're reading the story. And then that rhyming

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aspect of it will definitely keep the students' attention as well.

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I agree with all the things you said. It's really kind of awe-inspiring to look at the

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illustrations in this book and see how intricate a lot of those, I don't know what I would

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call them. I guess dolls that she knitted are. Would you call them dolls? I don't know.

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Toys? I don't know. But there's a lot of detail in them and it just, it must have taken such

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an amazing amount of time to put everything together the way she did. Love the simple

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text and again I love that it teaches prepositions. That's an extremely difficult concept to teach

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to our younger learners just because it's just not a concrete thing to teach, the location

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of something. Because whether I move my cup to the right or left, it's still a cup, but

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just teaching that it's the location of it. That's really very difficult to teach. I love

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that this book helps with that concept. Yeah, and I'm just like the amount of talent

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because I'm not a crafty person when it comes to this kind of stuff at all. But I wish it

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was just so cool to see the creativity of how each cat is just unique in how she made

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it, the design or the shape or the colors. Even like my wife was pointing out as she

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was looking at it, just some of the details like the cat that is affixed to a curtain

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for added suspense. If you look at it, the curtain has like random little holes in it

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from like cat claws and stuff like that level of detail. It's just really pretty cool. And

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I don't know, I really like this book. And I'm looking forward to getting and reading

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the short dog long dog book of opposites because it's also all of the dogs in that book are

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knitted the same way. So I think that'll be really fun. As far as a rating, I would definitely

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say that I would think this is going to be up there. It's not too heavy on the text.

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The pictures are engaging. It's teaching a skill that is very much needed for the age

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group. So I'm thinking maybe four and a half, maybe even a five, because I really like this

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book. I really like it a lot. So I think a five. I'm going to go with five.

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All right. I think that's fair. They're very engaging illustrations, very simple text,

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really easy to engage with. Yeah. Solid choice.

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There we go. And then for a makerspace connection, this one, I had a couple different ideas basically

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working with those prepositions. So you can do a couple different things. The first one

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would be if you want to go kind of two dimensional, you could give the students a cut out picture

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of a cat and have them draw on a piece of white paper. They can use some markers, some

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colored pencils, some crayons, draw a setting, and then they can take that cut out of the

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cat and kind of move it to different locations on the picture and explain to you using those

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prepositions where the cat is. The same idea just in three dimensions if you find like

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even just using some of those like farm animal counters or the bear counters, have the kids

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use some Legos to build something and then they can move the counter from place to place

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and use those prepositions that way to kind of show some understanding of how prepositions

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work and kind of how they relate to location. Yeah, I love that idea and it really builds

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upon what you kind of introduced with the book. For our library of littles management

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tip this week, let's discuss bookshelves. Bookshelves in our libraries are often kind

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of very organized and very challenging for our younger students to find things on. And

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I know that even when we do our best, it's going to take a little bit of time and a lot

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of practice to teach the kids how to find books on the shelves, but we can do some things

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to make that much more easily accessible. One of the main things that we can do is

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genrefying our picture book sections so that the students can look for certain types of

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books a lot easier. I'm in the process of going through my library working on setting

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up so that I can have my books genrefied at the moment. I'm going through and labeling

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them all, figuring out the different categories. I've got a list of about, I want to say it's

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about 18 different categories. It's a lot, but it makes it so that the kids have an idea

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of where they can find books. Because way too often our kids come up to us and say,

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where are the dragon books? Where are the superhero books? Where are the dog books? And if you're

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organizing your picture books by the author's last name, then there's no good answer to

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that question. But if we have all of the books that focus on dragons in one spot, or if we

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have all the books that focus on dogs in one spot, and they're clearly labeled on the shelves,

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not only is it easier for us to help them find them, but they will be able to take an

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initiative and look for those signage and find the books that they're looking for on

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their own. Kind of take some of that ownership on themselves instead of just hoping that

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an adult can come by and point out where they want to be looking. So this is a highly intensive

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process. On the last campus at one of the two campuses that you're on, Caroline, it took

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us the entire, most of this 2020 school year during COVID. And the only reason why we got

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it done in the amount of time we did was because the students weren't coming into the library,

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so we could just pull out all the books and make stacks to organize them and label them

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before putting them back on the shelves. And so when your library's in use, that takes

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a lot more time, a lot more planning, and it might, it means that probably late nights

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or coming up on the weekends to move those books around once everything's labeled and

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taken care of and then making the signage and then reteaching where everything is. But

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I honestly found that once it was done, the kids took a great deal of ownership. There

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were still some kids that were like, where can I find this kind of book? But most of

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the kids could look at the signs and be like, okay, this is where the dragon books are, or

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here's where the princess books are, and be able to find at least the general area where

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they were looking. From there, they might need some help finding the specific book, but at

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least they're in the right spot. So I think this is a, I think it's something that is

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beneficial definitely for younger kids, but I'll say even my fifth grade students, if

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they're trying to find a picture book, and they're looking by the author's last name,

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Alphab, the searching alphabetically for anything is not a skill that is used as often

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anymore.

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No, it's really not.

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Me as kids, we probably, we used it because we had to look up words in the dictionary,

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and we had to go and find the books on the shelves and that kind of thing. And now that's

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not so frequent. I don't think any of my fifth graders have ever touched a physical dictionary.

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They pull up Google or there, like when they're in their different programs that they're using

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in school, a lot of them have built in dictionaries where they can just search for the, like,

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search for the idea or search for the word, or if it's close, it'll give them some suggestions

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on how to spell. So finding, finding things alphabetically is not a skill that is necessarily

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taught very often. It's something that I'm attempting to teach, but it takes a long time,

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and if that isn't being reinforced anywhere else, it takes a lot more time. So trying

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to organize the books, even the fifth graders, I think, if they're, because they know what

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they want, but finding the author is challenging. So if they, if they had a sign where it was

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like these are the dragon books or these are the Mo Willems, Elephant and Piggy books,

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like, they would definitely use that signage to help them find what they're looking for.

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Yeah, I think that's a really great tip. Both of the libraries that I'm working in right

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now already have all of everything genre-fied, and it's very, very helpful. The only thing

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that I would add is when you make your sections, just make sure that you have big pictures,

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like use text with pictures, because especially for our younger learners, they're not going

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to, if they're looking for books about dragons, they may not necessarily know what the word

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dragon looks like, but they'll recognize a picture of a dragon. So just make sure you

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have lots of visuals when you're labeling everything. And I even, for quite a few of

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my books, instead of a traditional spine label, like I still have a traditional spine label,

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but in addition to my traditional spine label, I'll put just a very small picture of a dragon

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on the spine next to it so that the kids can see this is the picture of the small big picture

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of the dragon on the book itself. It goes in this section and they can see the bigger

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picture picture of the dragon next to it. So they can tell like all these books belong

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together with this particular section. So that's really helpful for them as well.

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Absolutely. I agree. Definitely. Visuals are always going to be important because like

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you said, those pre-K kids know they want a dragon book, but if they don't know what

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the word looks like, they can find it by the picture, which is definitely helpful.

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The second book that we're going to talk about today is called Mr. Kitty. It's lost. It's

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published by Little Brown and Company 2023. It is written and illustrated by Greg Pizzoli.

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This book is on the 2024 Texas 2x2 list and Pizzoli has won the Geisel Award three times.

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This particular book didn't win it, but several of its other books did.

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Greg Pizzoli studied English literature at Millersville University. He earned his master's

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of fine art in book arts and printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

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He eventually left to pursue making picture books full-time. He currently works in a studio

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that he shares with his wife Kay Healy, who is a printmaker and author. They live in South

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Philadelphia with their two daughters. Greg Pizzoli's other books, there are a lot. His

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three Geisel winners are The Watermelon Seat, Good Night Owl, and The Book Hog. He is both

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the author and illustrator of all three award-winning books. In addition to numerous other books,

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he has written and illustrated. He has also illustrated books for other authors of note

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including Two Little Trains by Margaret Weiss-Brown and The Jack series by Mac Barnett.

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Okay, so for this book, when a little girl's kitty goes missing, she and her dog go in

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search of him by giving the reader clues to help find the kitty. For example, one of them

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is Mr. Kitty has five yellow spots. Upon turning the page, the reader finds that it is not

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Mr. Kitty but something else entirely, such as five yellow snakes. After much searching,

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the reader finally finds Mr. Kitty but then loses something else at the end. I thought

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this was a really great early reader, much like Pizzoli's other books. It's really intended

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for students who are just learning to read. It's got kind of a predictable formula, making

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it a little bit easier for our emergent readers. It's really simple text. The illustrations

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are kind of bold, but they're not overwhelming. So it lets the readers focus on the text a

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little bit more, which is nice. I really loved all the die cuts that it has because you'll

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see just five small little circles and you turn the page hoping to find the cat. Greg

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Pizzoli just turns it into something else entirely and makes the kids think a little

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bit about what could be on the next page. Since it starts out with five yellow dots

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and then it goes down to four of the next object, I can't remember what it is off the

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top of my head. But then it goes to three, then two, and then one.

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It's four paws and then yeah.

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But as it's counting down, by the time you get to three, I think the kids have figured

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out it's probably not going to be Mr. Kitty. So it kind of helps the kids kind of... It

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keeps them engaged by kind of wanting to know what's going to come next. If it's not Mr.

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Kitty, what could it be so they can be a little bit more creative with that as well.

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I really enjoyed the story. I thought it was a really good fun book to read and it was kind

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of... I think a lot of kids would find it really funny as they're turning the page and kind

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of seeing all the different things that aren't Mr. Kitty. And then I loved that at the end

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Mr. Kitty wasn't really a kitty, but a big old lion. That was a fun surprise at the end

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too. So yeah, it was a really cute story. I really

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loved this one.

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Yeah, I enjoyed this a lot. I like that there are those bright colors. So like first you're

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looking for that bright yellow, those dots, and then it goes to orange and you get the

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purple. And you know, so those bright colors are really great. The fact that we're looking

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for certain shapes. So you're kind of introducing colors and shapes and then the counting down

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aspect of it. And then you've got all of the animals that aren't what we're looking for

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are kind of like absurd things that you wouldn't normally just run across. You know, like I

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don't know how often you would see four monkeys, but that's not something that every day you

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would expect to see. And so the fact that you're coming across four monkeys and three

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elephants and that kind of stuff, which is kind of silly. And I think you're right. I

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think that would definitely keep the kids focus and engagement because they're they're

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wanting to know what the next ridiculous kind of thing is that we know it's probably not

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Mr. Kitty, but what could it be? So I think it's definitely a great book for those younger

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learners. I think it's definitely a great story.

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Yeah, I think for this one, if I was, I think I might give this one, I might give it a five

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out of five for an emergent reader. I think it's a good solid choice for an emergent reader.

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I think it's a five out of five for that. Yeah.

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Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, for sure. It's going to be great for our younger learners.

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And I think you're right. I think five out of five solid

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for a makerspace activity for this one, because there were so many different shapes throughout

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the book, book and colors as well. I think it would be really fun to have a bunch of

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those die cuts that you see throughout the book and have like a bunch of those yellow

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circles and those little red paws and such already cut out and then the kids could kind

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of collage and put together new pictures and kind of expand on that and see what other

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pictures they could make with those same shapes and that were mentioned in the book. I think

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that would be a really fun one to do. Yeah. Yeah, because I think they could be very creative

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with that and be able to kind of put them together in different ways to come up with

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some pretty interesting things. Very cool. All right. So thank you all so much for joining

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I have to say my wife loved the book that I chose because she's very crafty and she

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was like, this is the coolest. It was cute. It was cute. Your wife is really crafty. It's

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true. She's got some skills. Yeah. And so like when she was like, they knitted all of

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that, she was like, I want to check this out. So pretty cool. Yeah.