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Summary: My favorite bedtime book
Comment: I bought this before my daughter was born and enjoyed reading it to her while she was in utero. Now that she is 10 months old, I enjoy watching her try to grab the "bowl of milk" on the pages, just as Kitten does. This is a sweet book that we can enjoy again once she begins reading. Add this to your library!
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Summary: Like the artwork, not so sure about the story.
Comment: Let me just say that I love the artwork here. I love the clean black-and-white, and the strong lines. I think it's very well-suited for this story.
Unfortunately, some aspects of the story... I'm not so thrilled with. I think that the kitten suffers more than enough on his quest (it gets almost painful for me to read). I also just don't find the story itself that interesting. My nieces haven't requested a re-read. *shrugs* Can't like every book, I guess. Good thing I checked this out from the library first!
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Summary: Report and Opinion by a 4th Grade Student
Comment: This is a fun book about a kitten that is not very smart. In the book Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes, Kitten sees her first full moon and thinks it is a bowl of milk. She really wants it, so she tries to get it in many different ways.
At first, Kitten is sitting on the porch and sees the full moon, which she thinks is a big bowl of milk. She wants "the bowl of milk" and starts trying to get it in many different ways. First, she tries licking it, but she only gets a bug. Yuck!!!! Then, she tries to get it by jumping, but tumbles down the porch stairs, bumping her legs, nose, ears, head, and tail on the way down. Second, she tries chasing it over the sidewalk, in the field, and in the garden by the pond. Third, she tries to get it by climbing up a tree, but does not succeed.
From the top of the tree, Kitten sees a big bowl of milk in the middle of the lake (actually, the moon's reflection). Then she jumps in to try and get it, but all that happens is she gets wet. When she went home it was to find a real bowl of milk waiting for her on the porch. YAY!
I enjoyed this book because the pictures were beautiful and the words were small. The pictures were detailed and fit in with the story. I also liked the pictures because they were black and white. The text was great because it was not too much to read. I also enjoyed how naïve the kitten was because she thought the moon was a bowl of milk. I would recommend this book to younger people who like pictures more than letters!!!!!
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Summary: Sophia's Favorite Book
Comment: This is the best book in the history of books!!! The first time I read it, I started reading it to my 3-year-old brother Diego who kept yelling,"Marshmallow" in the middle of the story! I know everyone will love it as much as I do. That's why I give it 5 stars. I am going to read it again right now.
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Summary: What every Children's book Should Strive to Be
Comment: This book truly has it all! The story takes place at night and goes through a shimmering array of charcoal looking style illustrations that seem to perfectly showcase kitten during his journey of discovery without detracting from the simplicity and sheer determination of a naive baby kitten. You can't help but laugh even as an adult at the adventures this poor, tiny kitten has in his quest for the irresistible bowl of milk (I mean of course kitten thinks the moon is a bowl of milk its her first moon and shes clearly not properly informed about the moon and how it glistens in the sky and obviously beckons to her "come drink me"). She runs, she climbs, she leaps, and even ends up soaking wet in what she thinks is another bowl of milk only to find that in the end everything she wants is waiting for her right on her very own doorstep. I love reading this to my daughter I never get sick of it, this book will absolutely stand the test of time! In fact I was so smitten with this book I've gone on to buy at least five other Kevin Henkes books for my daughter who ironically has a floral name as does most of Henke's mouse characters and their all as equally fantastic as kitten, but in my opinion for a reader with a bigger attention span 2 and a half+. I actually think "Kittens first full moon" would be absolutely amazing as a board book and so I recommend it from birth+.
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