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Pete the Cat
Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete: Includes Over 30 Stickers! – A Fun Prehistoric Adventure About Dinosaurs and Getting Along at a Picnic
Meet Cavecat Pete in New York Times bestselling artist James Dean's prehistoric Pete the Cat adventure!
Pete lives happily among the dinosaurs. He's friends with everyone. But when Pete organizes a picnic with all his friends and some herbivores and carnivores can't seem to get along, it's up to Cavecat Pete to show them that they can all have fun together. Fans of Pete the Cat will enjoy going back in time with Pete.
Pete lives happily among the dinosaurs. He's friends with everyone. But when Pete organizes a picnic with all his friends and some herbivores and carnivores can't seem to get along, it's up to Cavecat Pete to show them that they can all have fun together. Fans of Pete the Cat will enjoy going back in time with Pete.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 20, 2015
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About the author
James Dean
232 books260 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
James Dean is the original creator and illustrator of Pete the Cat. He is a self-taught artist originally from Fort Payne, Alabama. His passion for drawing became apparent at a young age, and as a child, you could find James drawing his favorite characters like Snoopy and Yogi Bear.
James earned his degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and went on to work for Georgia Power for a number of years. Eventually, he was called to pursue his art full- time and began selling his work at art festivals around the Southeast. It was during this time that he began creating paintings and drawing of his cat, Pete.The little blue cat showed up as a character in James’s artwork around 1999 and has been a permanent fixture ever since.
James Dean’s art has been sold in more than ninety galleries and shops across the United States. He has devoted his paintings to Pete the Cat for fifteen years and turned his natural love for cats into his life’s work. James published his first book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006, and he illustrated his first self-published children’s book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008. There are now almost 100 published Pete the Cat titles with more coming out all the time. James is humbled every day by the success that this groovy blue cat has brought him. He says positively affecting children’s lives is his number one priority, and he is grateful to have such an amazing audience to work for.
James Dean is the original creator and illustrator of Pete the Cat. He is a self-taught artist originally from Fort Payne, Alabama. His passion for drawing became apparent at a young age, and as a child, you could find James drawing his favorite characters like Snoopy and Yogi Bear.
James earned his degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and went on to work for Georgia Power for a number of years. Eventually, he was called to pursue his art full- time and began selling his work at art festivals around the Southeast. It was during this time that he began creating paintings and drawing of his cat, Pete.The little blue cat showed up as a character in James’s artwork around 1999 and has been a permanent fixture ever since.
James Dean’s art has been sold in more than ninety galleries and shops across the United States. He has devoted his paintings to Pete the Cat for fifteen years and turned his natural love for cats into his life’s work. James published his first book, The Misadventures of Pete the Cat, a history of his artwork, in 2006, and he illustrated his first self-published children’s book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, in 2008. There are now almost 100 published Pete the Cat titles with more coming out all the time. James is humbled every day by the success that this groovy blue cat has brought him. He says positively affecting children’s lives is his number one priority, and he is grateful to have such an amazing audience to work for.
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September 12, 2015
Pete had a great run, followed by an ok run, followed by... this.
Ok, so maybe I’m being too harsh, but I really love the original Litwin/Dean Pete storiess. Pete was a likable character that taught kids to stay positive no matter what life throws your way.
He was basically The Hold Steady for the preschool set:
But like Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn said: “It's one thing to start it with a positive jam / And it's another thing to see it all through”
Litwin and Dean had some kind of behind the scenes issues, Litwin is no longer involved, and Dean as replaced quality for quantity. This one is especially wordy and doesn’t have that same fun rhythm as the original books.
Basically, it’s like what would happen if John Archambault fired Bill Martin Jr. and published a million “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” books that take place in outspace and instead of teaching letters and numbers they were about aliens that turned peanuts into gravy.
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Ok, so maybe I’m being too harsh, but I really love the original Litwin/Dean Pete storiess. Pete was a likable character that taught kids to stay positive no matter what life throws your way.
He was basically The Hold Steady for the preschool set:
But like Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn said: “It's one thing to start it with a positive jam / And it's another thing to see it all through”
Litwin and Dean had some kind of behind the scenes issues, Litwin is no longer involved, and Dean as replaced quality for quantity. This one is especially wordy and doesn’t have that same fun rhythm as the original books.
Basically, it’s like what would happen if John Archambault fired Bill Martin Jr. and published a million “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” books that take place in outspace and instead of teaching letters and numbers they were about aliens that turned peanuts into gravy.
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January 30, 2015
What is happening to Pete?? The stories just aren't the same quality as they once were. I had a first grader who wrote a book entitled "Pete the Cat is Sick." That is the last Pete the Cat story that grabbed me. :)
November 6, 2015
Definitely a fun story. Pete gathers all his dinosaur friends to have a fun picnic together.
You can hear the story @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZb9F...
You can hear the story @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZb9F...
August 7, 2025
A ridiculous (even by Pete the Cat standards) book in which Pete travels back in time to picnic with dinosaurs. Kids love Pete and dinosaurs, so you’d think this was a gem. It’s could be the book that makes Pete the Cat go extinct in our house.
Moral: No one can argue with a good picnic with friends.
Length: This story felt much longer than it actually was.
Favorite Line: “The picnic will be ruined if Pete doesn’t do something.”
Overall impression: Dinos eating salad while jamming at an open-mic picnic may be exactly the type of story you’re looking to share with your little one. If it’s not (and why would it be?), leave this Pete the Cat adventure buried in the annals of fossilized lousy children’s books.
Moral: No one can argue with a good picnic with friends.
Length: This story felt much longer than it actually was.
Favorite Line: “The picnic will be ruined if Pete doesn’t do something.”
Overall impression: Dinos eating salad while jamming at an open-mic picnic may be exactly the type of story you’re looking to share with your little one. If it’s not (and why would it be?), leave this Pete the Cat adventure buried in the annals of fossilized lousy children’s books.
May 7, 2024
When prehistoric Pete invites his dinosaur buddies to a picnic, everything seems to be going along fine until the dinos begin to disagree. It's up to Pete to make peace and save the day. As others have noted, it's not up to the bar set by the original Pete tales, but young dinosaur enthusiasts will enjoy the familiar species populating each page.
May 24, 2025
This one is dumb. Even my Pete the Cat obsessed 2-year-old daughter doesn't want it read more than once.
Pete is a cavecat, which means he wears Fred Flintstone's tunic and his usual friends have been replaced by dinosaurs. He invites his carnivore and herbivore friends to the same picnic, and they don't get along until he plays music, then they do, trying each other's food.
Trite. Pointless.
Pete is a cavecat, which means he wears Fred Flintstone's tunic and his usual friends have been replaced by dinosaurs. He invites his carnivore and herbivore friends to the same picnic, and they don't get along until he plays music, then they do, trying each other's food.
Trite. Pointless.
June 22, 2017
Pete and his dinosaur friends have a picnic. Everyone brings something to the picnic to share. They jam to some music and eat salad. Not my favorite Pete book, but it is still good. good book for preschool through 1st grade.
May 13, 2020
Pete plus Dinosaurs = perfection for six-year-olds! Pete is a good example of how to navigate social difficulties between friends and have a fun day together.
"If it's Pete the Cat it's a 5 star book" (so far, according to grandma read-o-meter)
"If it's Pete the Cat it's a 5 star book" (so far, according to grandma read-o-meter)
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May 2, 2021it is a nice and fun story about how Pete wanted to bring all of his friends together and hang out all at once. not very rememberable, but i do think it would be a good book to use in class or at home.
June 19, 2021
Wow! Pete is such a popular cat, I can't believe how many different books there are. This one is about Pete inviting all of his dinosaur friends to a picnic. The T-Rex even eats a salad. How tender and liberal.
October 6, 2023
I like a lot of the Pete the Cat books, but I didn't see the point of this. None of Pete's regular friends are in this book. He's with a bunch of dinosaurs who don't get along, but then he plays music and they do get along. I could have done without this one.
August 27, 2024
My kids love dinosaurs, but even they had a hard time following this one. Fortunately there were enough other things in the story that I could distract them with, but this definitely isn't a favorite.
May 2, 2025
Not my favorite Pete the Cat book, but a good way for kids to start learning the names of dinosaurs. Pete and his Dino friends set out to enjoy a lovely picnic, but the dinosaurs get into a little tiff about food choices, and it's up to Pete to save the picnic!
July 21, 2017
Silly story but Pete fans will like it. Recommended for grades k-2
June 11, 2018
The kids love Pete the Cat, I'm meh.
July 31, 2018
Pete's day with his dinosaur friends...helping different animals get along...and learn to enjoy different games and foods
September 19, 2018
Pete the Cat is in the prehistoric era and decides to have a picnic with all of his dinosaur friends.
September 21, 2018
Pete the Cat as a Cavecat who invites all different type of dinosaurs to a picnic that he and his friend Vinnie the Velociraptor has planned for the day,
December 15, 2018
I thought there would be some alliteration with the names of the characters and some funny stuff. I liked the illustrations. I had to read it to someone who happens to love dinosaurs
June 23, 2019
Too many endings.
December 10, 2019
This series is fun for about first grade levels
December 19, 2019
really cool
January 13, 2020
Pete the cavecat invites a bunch of dinosaurs to a picnic. Then they have a picnic. That's it. It's simplistic and pointless and my kids won't stop asking me to read it.
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March 30, 2020Chinese edition
September 21, 2020
It was alright. Fun to read but not a top favourite. Gotta love the reoccurrence of Pete and his guitar.
November 16, 2020
This one was a nice vocabulary building read. If your child is a Pete devotee, then this may be a good choice for them.
February 2, 2021
This book was about Pete the cat
March 3, 2021
I like dinosaur stuff, so this was pretty good. Also it's my intro to Pete. Off to read some more!
February 7, 2022
Every Pete the Cat book that I've read has been great. This one is no exception.
Bravo James Dean!
Bravo James Dean!
August 24, 2022
All about getting along despite our differences.
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