Title: The Cat Who Ate Christmas
Author: Lil Chase
Artist: Thomas Docherty
Genre: Children's / Animals / Pets / Family / Christmas / Humor
Year Published: 2016
Year Read: 4/23/2018
Publisher: RP Kids
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Some Mischief)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
I
would like to thank NetGalley and RP Kids for
providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
So, I was browsing for more books
on NetGalley again and I stumbled upon a children’s book that had a pretty
interesting title, which was called “The
Cat Who Ate Christmas” which is written by Lil Chase along with artwork by Thomas Docherty and of course, I had to pick this book up for the
title alone!
It is Christmas and the Hudson
family are celebrating the holidays with activities such as decorating their
tree and cooking a big and delicious turkey!
Unfortunately, Jingles, the family cat, is being extremely naughty this
Christmas as he destroys the family’s Christmas decorations and ends up eating
the family turkey! Of course, everyone
in the family gets cross with Jingles and this causes Jingles to run away from
home!
Can the Hudson family find Jingles or
will their Christmas be ruined?
Read this book to find out!
Lil Chase did a great job at writing
this book as this book turned out way differently than what I had expected! I must admit that when I first saw the title
of this book, I thought that the cat in this book actually did ate Christmas or
at least ate everything that dealt with Christmas! But, when I actually started reading this
book, I found out that the title of this book was more in a metaphorical sense
than what I had originally thought and it made the title of this book such an
interesting concept for a simple family mishap!
I loved the fact that Lil Chase
made the Hudson family into such a caring and loving family as they might get a
bit annoyed by Jingles’ antics, but they do truly care about Jingles in the
end. I also enjoyed the scenes of the family
members setting up their decorations for Christmas as it made the book so
relatable to me as my family and I love to hang up the decorations for
Christmas every year and this book made me wish that Christmas was actually
here already! Thomas Docherty’s artwork is highly creative as the artwork is done
mainly in two colors, which are blue and glitter (at least in the edition I
got). I loved the way that the items
done in glittering colors really stood out in the artwork as they bring out the
importance of the items in the story, such as the turkey and the Christmas
decorations.
The reason why I gave this book a
four-star rating was because I felt that the pacing of this book was a bit slow
at times and there were times where I tried to speed through this book to get
to the more intriguing parts of the book.
Overall, “The
Cat Who Ate Christmas” is a truly humorous and cute book that children who
want to read books about Christmas or who want to read books about naughty pets
will easily enjoy! I would recommend
this book to children ages five and up since there is nothing inappropriate in
this book.
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