Tuesday Storytime: Dogs and Cats

These were chosen by my coworker this week.

Douglas, You Need Glasses!
Ged Adamson
ISBN: 9780553522433
I always enjoy a funny book about kid-centric fears or challenges, and discovering that you need glasses is a pretty big challenge for a lot of kids. I somehow made it til my driving test before discovering that I was pretty nearly legally blind (that was a fun eye-sight test), whereas a less-blissfully-ignorant friend of mine was leaving her glasses behind at sleepovers, and "accidentally" dropping them behind car tires or into gopher holes at age 5. So there's going to be a lot of interest and sympathy here for poor Douglas, who gets into awful scrapes because he can't see, and then realizes that the world is a lot more fun with glasses. The translation of an eye chart into dog-friendly images is an especially fun sequence.

I Don't Want a Cool Cat!
Emma Dodd
ISBN: 9780316036740
A girl goes down the list of types of cats that she definitely does not want, until she reaches the end to state that really all she wants is just a cat - any cat - of her own. Sweet and cute (there's a dog version also).

Wolf's Coming!
Joe Kulka
ISBN: 9781575059303
Forest animals start giving warnings to each other and sneaking through the woods and into corners and hidey-places in houses as the Wolf starts to approach, but it's all in good fun at the end, as the animals are there for an entirely different type of surprise. I still think my favorite part of this book is the Wolf's dapper business suit with the giant '80s-style power shoulders. My second favorite is the scared look on his face as he peers into his strangely-dark house (our first real clue that something's up). Very suspenseful, and the tension might get to some younger kids - the colors are saturated and dark towards the reveal of the surprise.