Monday, June 23, 2014

Gotta Love Those Cats!


This past week was busy with both work and play as we took one of Emily's friends bowling, went geocaching, visited the Velvet Ice Cream Factory, set up tables at our local farm market. It was so busy in fact, that for this Monday's book review, I actually had Emily read a book to me on the way to Bible school Sunday evening.

Bowling
 
 

She read Captain Cat by Inga Moore. The book started by stating that Captain Cat loved cats so much that he had more cats then crew. I laughed and asked Emily if that reminded her of anyone. She responded by saying that it reminded her of her friend that had gone bowling with us. A friend that loves cats so much that she even calls herself cat girl.

Captain Cat

Quickly I stopped laughing and she continued to read. We learned that Captain Cat was a trader, but not a good one. He loved cats so much, he always traded his goods for  more cats. One day Captain Cat decided he was going to travel to places he had never seen. He, his cats, and crew set off, but a large storm causes them to sail off course to an island over run with rats.

I don't want to give too much away, so I will just finish by saying that you really will love how this extremely amusing story ends. The illustrations are quite captivating too.

Well, that about wraps it up for this week. Join me next week for another exciting episode, same crazy time, same crazy channel. And feel free to drop by my personal website, Fun With Aileen, any day of the week for even more on reading, writing, my very own early grade chapter book, Fern Valley, and my soon to be released sequel, Return To Fern Valley, coming summer of 2014! I'm also on twitter @AileenWStewart if you want an extremely brief glimpse into my days.










6 comments:

  1. This sounds like a fun book, mostly because I, too, am a cat girl :)
    Happy reading this week! :)

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  2. I can't wait until my son is old enough to read to me! It seems like you have such a wonderful family and had such a great week. I hope you have a great reading week next week!

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    1. Thanks Riki. So glad you stopped by. Your son will be reading to you before you know it!

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  3. Great photos Aileen. Captain Cat sounds like an interesting read too! :) Enjoy your reading week!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by Miss Myra. That is my sister-in-laws name as well :-)

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