I received a digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
The illustrations were cute and captivating. The story could have been spread out further onto more pages. The rhyming was pretty good - my kids always enjoy books with rhyming. As a parent I try not to be too censoring but the older cat states that on her many travels and adventures she’s “had many flings”. Now the English language is a complicated one and words like “fling” can have many different and varied definitions. While there is a legit definition that could be interpreted as a temporary wild jaunt etc. This definition is more nuanced than I believe the average person will be aware of existing. Were I to have read this with my kids which I didn’t only because the digital formatting for this particular book was not conducive to holding their attention they would have asked me what this word means and I would have given them all the definitions as I often do with unfamiliar words. Then they may have trotted off and used this phrasing - “had a fling” at their childcare location which is primarily staffed by college girls in the afternoons and that phrasing would have been interpreted as had a temporary sexual relationship as is the the most common interpretation of that phrasing of the word fling and then I would have been called by the director and it would been a whole thing.
In general we love books about cats because we have a cat. The Illustrations were great and the rhyming was pretty solid which is always popular but I probably won’t be reading this one to my kids any time soon.
3/5
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