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    City Cat

    By Kate Banks and Lauren Castillo

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    Kate Banks and Lauren Castillo's City Cat is a picture book about a cat on the move and a vacationing family whose paths meet and cross as they visit all the great cities of Europe.

    A plucky stray cat takes a Grand Tour in Kate Banks' story of a family on a European vacation. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own means--by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike--to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace and the Cathedral of Notre Dame along the way. Readers will pore over the spreads to find where City Cat is hiding in each city, and detailed backmatter explains the history behind the sites in each locale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781466845213
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    City Cat
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    Kate Banks

    Kate Banks (1960 – 2024) wrote many books for children, among them Max’s Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading. Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years and lived in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.

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    • 4/5
      A cosmopolitan cat follows a vacationing Italian family around Europe in this charming poetic picture-book, visiting eight cities, from Marseille to Barcelona, London to Berlin. In each city he sees the sights - Notre Dame in Paris, the cat boat sanctuary in Amsterdam - and experiences the local culture, before hitching a ride to his next destination. In the end he returns, along with the Italian family's whose trip he has mirrored, to his home in Rome...The text of City Cat reads incredibly well, slipping off the tongue in poetic twists, with rhymes and almost-rhymes, and an engaging rhythm that makes the experience a pleasure. The artwork, done by Caldecott honoree Lauren Castillo, is equally engaging, capturing the eponymous feline's happy wanderlust and the beauties he witnesses to perfection. Equal parts educational - the afterword includes a bit more information about each city visited - and entertaining, this is a picture-book I would recommend to young cat lovers, to young would-be travelers, and to anyone looking for children's stories that teach a little bit of geography while also keeping young children engaged.
    • 5/5
      While a family leaves Rome on a tour of European cities, a cat shadows their tour, popping up in all the same places. Lovely because it features less common spots: Marseille, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Munich are underrepresented in picture books. There's back matter to give a little more info on the specific sites shown.



      I'd dearly love a whole series of these with cats touring all the continents, because cats.



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    • 3/5
      Stray feline sees the sights in eight major European cities.
    • 3/5
      A little black cat starts out in Rome and travels throughout numerous cities in several European countries. The cat manages to get from city to city by being curious and burrowing into car trunks, boats, metro trains, etc. Meanwhile, a family of four is also traveling throughout Europe and it appears that the cat is following them on their vacation.When I heard about this book, I really liked the concept and was looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed with the actual book. Banks uses beautiful poetic language to describe the cat's comings and goings, but I feel like the lack of prose means the action is bit unclear, especially for young children. This seems like the type of book you'd need to use a lot of your own words in addition to the text in order for younger kids to even understand what's going on (i.e., it's easy enough to miss that the cat is on the same path of the family; it's not always clear when the cat has entered a new city; etc.). Not that it's a bad thing to give kids extra information about a book to enrich their knowledge, but a book should be able to stand on its own for a first reading without young readers getting confused.On the plus side, Castillo's illustrations are lovely and do a great job showing off the highlights of many big European cities. A final spread in the book shows all the places the cat visited and gives a brief contextual description about a famous site in that city and its history. (The word "cat" is also defined in the language of each European countries visited.) The inside cover also maps out the cat's journey so that kids get an understanding of the relative geography of her trip.
    • 5/5
      In my opinion, “City Cat” is a good book for younger children because it teaches the reader about different countries in the Europe. The story starts with a cat that travels through different cities in Europe. The cat uses many modes of transportation when traveling from country to country. One way the cat travels is by bus. Another way city cat travels is by the metro. City cat travels to eight different cities while exploring all of the most famous landmarks in those countries. “City Cat, strutting down the boulevards, taking in the city sights. The skyline, pulsing, bathed in light.” I enjoyed the illustrations, done by Lauren Castillo, which help to showcase the story. She uses bright colors in her illustrations, helping to make the story more real and gain attention from the readers. There is a drawing of a family from each city that city cat visits. I thought this was neat because the cat was taking the same adventure as his family, moving from city to city. As the story progresses, the audience is able to really see all these cities as the cat is following his family through the story. Some of the things children learn while reading this book would be, where all these countries are located on a map, the diverse ways of transportation, and how one can get from one place to another. The big idea of the story is for children to explore different ways to get from one place of the world to another.