Cat Skidoo

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Cat Skidoo
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Author Bethany Roberts
IllustratorR. W. Alley
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fiction
PublishedMay 2004 [1]
Publisher Henry Holt & Company [2]
Publication placeUnited States
Pages36 [1] (unpaged) [2]
ISBN 0-8050-6710-8

Cat Skidoo is a 2004 book by Bethany Roberts, with illustrations by R. W. Alley. About two kittens who cause havoc exploring their home surroundings, it received positive reviews.

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Synopsis

Two kittens have fun exploring around the house and the yard in a game called "cat skidoo", "which seems to entail chasing everything that moves while wreaking havoc." [1]

Background

This was the second Bethany Roberts book to feature cats as main characters, after 1997's Cat Parade. [3] [4]

Reception

On its original publication, Cat Skidoo received positive reviews. Booklist , Kirkus Reviews , and the School Library Journal praised Roberts' "rhythmic", "rollicking" rhymes and Alley's watercolor work. [1] [2] [5] SLJ's Marge Loch-Wouters called it a "bouncy tribute to feline exuberance...[f]eaturing plenty of white space and lending a sense of nonstop motion". [2] Booklist's Carolyn Phelan said it was "Fun for reading aloud", adding: "Alley's lively ink drawings make the most of the kittens' innocent curiosity and playful high jinks, giving children lots of visual action to enjoy as the simple story rolls along." [5] According to Kirkus, "The kittens are expressive without being too anthropomorphic." [1] Despite the "anticlimatic ending", Nell Beram of The Horn Book Guide admitted that "for the littlest readers[,] the ride will be worth it." [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Review: 'Cat Skidoo'". Kirkus Reviews . No. 9. May 1, 2004. ISSN   1948-7428. ProQuest   917138075 . Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Loch-Wouters, Marge (June 2004). "Review: 'Cat Skidoo'" . School Library Journal . Vol. 50, no. 6. p. 117. ISSN   0362-8930. ProQuest   211744981 . Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  3. ↑ Kumar, Lisa, ed. (2010). "Roberts, Bethany 1949–". Something About the Author . Vol. 202. Gale Research. p. 153. ISBN   978-1-4144-3499-5 . Retrieved July 29, 2023– via Internet Archive.
  4. ↑ Ward, Caroline (January 1997). "Review: 'Cat Parade'" . School Library Journal . Vol. 43, no. 1. p. 90. ISSN   0362-8930. ProQuest   211682373 . Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Phelan, Carolyn (June 1–15, 2004). "Review: 'Cat Skidoo'" . Booklist . Vol. 100, no. 19/20. p. 1748. ISSN   0006-7385. ProQuest   235506008 . Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  6. ↑ Beram, Nell (Fall 2004). "Preschool: 'Cat Skidoo'" (PDF). The Horn Book Guide . Vol. 15, no. 2. p. 325. ISSN   1044-405X. ProQuest   207563460 . Retrieved July 29, 2023. Another Roberts book, Fourth of July Mice! , was reviewed in the same issue.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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