My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

Product Information

Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. Pick and mix your very own bespoke guided reading collection matched to your school’s requirements and children’s book tastes! She can look at the pictures to remind her of the appropriate part of the story and pretend to read it on her own after we finish.

Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. The opinions expressed are mine and no monetary compensation was offered to me by the author or publisher. Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's bestselling children's author/illustrator and has an international following. Cats are ambush predators and finding confined places where they can hide, hunt prey and feel safe and warm is an instinctive behaviour.The book has very simple rhymes like “The cat from France likes to sing and dance, the cat from Greece joined the police” these are repeated throughout the book. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. It introduces cats from all over the world – fancy felines from France and suave cats from Spain – but all are eclipsed by the narrator's cat who likes to hide in boxes. I wonder whether with older children you could try writing postcards together and sending them to the cats. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes is a New Zealand children’s book by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd, who are cousins by marriage.

Also if any children has a cat then they can talk about what their cats do and if their cat likes to hid in boxes. The study was performed on a group of shelter cats, and around half were assigned boxes and the other half were not. It's a rhyming story about cat's from different countries, always coming back to the cat that like to hide in boxes! Cats from many different countries may like to do all kinds of strange and exotic things like fly aeroplanes, or sing and dance, or even play the violin but this cat, an ordinary round-the-house cat, likes to hide in boxes.Cats don’t have in-built conflict resolution strategies, so they much prefer to hide from their problems.

Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. I’d probably teach this book to pre-K-1st grade students as they can enjoy a simple cat book while learning about other countries and rhyming words. The ideal temperature for cats to be comfortable is around 37 °C, so being warm is very important for your feline. The book seemed old fashioned compared to newer story's, but it was stimulating and age appropriate for that group.