What is more, Moses the Kitten (the first story) is a bit more verbose than the others and could give you a wrong impression of the entire treasury's language complexity. Now - that we have read all the stories in the treasury - be assured that all of Herriot's animal yarns are equally captivating and exciting. Yet, as soon as we finished reading Moses The Kitten, my little pumpkins wanted the story again and again that very same evening! We read the first story from beginning to end without a pause, even though I don't think they understood half of the words.Īs I was reading, I thought - that's it, this book goes back on the shelf for another year. There was a silence in the room - (that I fondly remember to this day). OK, admittedly, they are always open to a new book.īut when I opened the first page to start reading Moses the Kitten - the first of the eight picture book stories contained in the treasury - my kids dropped everything else that they were doing. My kids were sitting around their little round and green plastic table - my daughter on her favorite blue chair and my son on his favorite pink one - and as soon as they saw the cover of my book, they knew something was up. So I walked down the steps with the treasury under my arm, as cool as possible. But, I wanted to try, as I suspected that the massive full color illustrations on every page could do the trick.
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