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When a cat-loving family decides to bring home a pet, their quest reveals the highs and lows of everyday family life in this heartwarming story-perfect for kitten lovers and everyone who's ever longed for a pet.
Finally, it's time for this family to adopt a pet of their own! But big decisions remain to be made. The two children, Tulip and Rosie, definitely want a kitten. But Daddy insists an older cat is best. No one can agree about what name to give the new family member, either. When Mommy and Rosie visit a shelter to choose their pet, yet another problem arises and they must go home empty-handed. This deftly paced story from best-selling author Emily Jenkins-winsomely narrated by Mommy, who just wants to find peaceful solutions-highlights themes of finding family unity among realistic conflict and overcoming disappointment. Readers will rejoice along with the family as, finally, they welcome home their very own, absolutely wonderful kitten.
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Booklist Review
For a family, getting a pet can be fraught with conflict. In this light look at one family's search for a kitten, the father is the big baby, pouting and fuming when his bid for an older cat is overruled. Mommy narrates (and, very subtly, rules) here. After a trip to the local library results in her two daughters finding a book on cats and deciding they must have one, the search, and the struggle, begin. Mommy takes just one other family member, the younger daughter, to an animal shelter ("less fighting that way" is Mommy's rationale), but the shelter, in a rundown house, is no longer operating. Next, Mommy goes by herself by bus, in a blizzard, to a shelter where an older cat, not the kitten everyone except the father wanted, steals her heart. Sepia-toned illustrations lend warmth to the story. The resolution, with the whole family falling in love with the cat, speaks to the adage that "you don't choose your pet; your pet chooses you."