Do Cats Think?

by Salina Yoon

book

Genres: Animals, Picture Books, Storytime, Cats, Childrens

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Salina Yoon is an award-winning author/illustrator of over 150 books for children, including Penguin and Pinecone, Penguin on Vacation, Penguin in Love, Penguin and Pumpkin, Penguin's Big Adventure, Found, and Stormy Night.

Her latest book, Be a Friend, was a Winter 2015-2016 Kids' Indie Next Pick. Among her other awards are a Scholastic Teachers Top 10 Picture Book for Penguin's Big Adventure, and an NPR Best Book and 2014 SCIBA Book Award for Best Picture Book for Found. (complete list is on the website ABOUT page)

She studied art and design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now lives in San Diego with her family.

www.salinayoon.com

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would be great for Storytime.

[Meredith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute read with an easy rhyming pattern
I think a younger child would love to read this with an older friend.
In this classroom this could be used to introduce rhyming by reading each segment and giving students choices on what rhyming word would make sense and then lifting the flap to see if they chose well. The teacher would have to come up with 3 or 4 options for each second.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why are some of the teeth so scary? XD

I love Do Cows Meow?. It's a great storytime book and read aloud.

[Molly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this would work pretty well for a baby storytime.

My 2 issues were that the flaps were kind of hard to lift and do rabbits really say 'sniff'? Does that come out of their mouth? (The See 'n Say did that, too, and it bothered me then)

[Jared White · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the artist got a bit carried away in drawing the teeth, the cat and some other animals are a bit terrifying once you lift-the-flap.

[Ruth Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute lift-the-flap book with bright, engaging illustrations. The rhyming text makes it fun to read aloud. :)

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My toddler loved this so much! The flaps were easy for her to maneuver on her own, and the pictures were so fun.

[Aarvik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice read!

[Harry Palacio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every children’s book is a cipher…
Renaissance

[Josh Campeau · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple pop-up about animal sounds. A good read-a-loud for 0-4 years.

[Steph]

Turn/Level: B/2

Animal Sounds

[Joan Arbogast · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an oversized lift-the-flap board book is sure to delight toddlers lifting the flap and making appropriate sounds.

[Emily Snider · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is cute for little kids but for me, I wouldn't really like this book at times it got creepy. I think it got a bit carried away in drawing the teeth, the cat and some other animals are a bit terrifying once you lift the flap. I would not have this in my classroom library.

[Elizabeth]

If you like the others in the series, you might like this, but some of the animal "noises" are actions more than sounds, like sniff, snuffle, and splish splash.

Also, two of the sounds are paired with the wrong animal at the back of the book, which perhaps demonstrates how arbitrary some of the assigned noises are.