is a picture book written by David Almond and is illustrated by Stephen Lambert. This tells the story of a girl named Kate and her adventures as she turns into a cat. The picture book allows the reader to experience and explore Kate's imagination as she changes into a cat and roams the countryside, free to do whatever she wishes and to go wherever she wishes. Kate firstly explores her own home and visits all her family members as they sleep, she then proceeds to explore the vast countryside where she meets a fellow cat and explores the surrounding hills. Kate later returns home and transforms back into her orginal self and goes to sleep. In the morning Kate is excited to share her adventures with all her family. This is a very unique and magical picture book.
Sidney the Little Blue Elephant is written and illustrated by Sharon Rentta.
This picture book introduces the reader to Sidney, a shy elephant and his friends Betty the mouse, Rufus the dog, Neville the frog, Gloria the cockatoo and Oscar the sausage dog. All of Sidney's friends are significantly smaller than him, this is never an issue until one day Sidney and his friends go to the park as they all want to ride bikes, but Sidney is not too sure. Sidney insists that all his friends start riding and he will catch up because Sidney has a secret, he cant ride. As Sidney's friend's ride off to race as Sidney starts to practice how to ride his bike.
As Sidney's friends reach their destination they realise Sidney is no where in sight so they decide to look everywhere for him. They eventually find Sidney has crashed into a small pond. Sidney has to suck up his pride and explain to his friends that he in fact does not know how to ride a bike. Sidney's friends help him out of the pond and help Sidney learn how to ride his bike and all race to the the ice-cream van together. I was attracted to this book as it was a very well illustrated and appealing picture book.
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