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This delightful picture book with Emily Gravett’s signature twist ending sweetly depicts the relationship between a child and her beloved pet.
Matilda is desperate to figure out what her cat will enjoy. She tries everything she can think of: climbing trees, playing with wool, even tea parties and dress-up games, but as Matilda gets more and more creative in her entertainment attempts, her cat moves from unimpressed to terrified. Will Matilda ever figure out what her cat likes?
In the style of Dogs and Monkey and Me, this young picture book from Emily Gravett is an insightful, fond, and funny look at the relationship between a little girl and her cat that’s sure to strike a chord with anyone who’s ever loved a pet.
- Sales Rank: #1696980 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-03-18
- Released on: 2014-03-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1—The day Matilda put on her cat suit and made mischief of one kind and another, her aloof and rather skittish feline just said, "No." Despite the child's best efforts, Matilda is unable to engage her pet in playing with wool or boxes, climbing trees, or riding bikes. After a failed tea party, drawing session, and bedtime story, the youngster takes off her cat suit and gets ready for bed and finally captures the tabby's attention. The energetic watercolor artwork is pure Gravett, with plenty of visual jokes and with characters—girl and cat—who express their feelings with every fiber of their being. For every overly exuberant youngster who has ever attempted to win the affections of a feline, this picture book offers reassurances that the friendship bond will most like occur but perhaps not on the child's timetable.—Luann Toth, School Library Journal\
From Booklist
Matilda, dressed in a ginger-striped cat costume, loves to play with her ginger-striped cat, but her poor cat doesn’t like anything Matilda wants to do. Appearing in hand-scrawled, pencil-like lettering on each double-page spread is a list of things Matilda thinks her cat will enjoy: “Matilda’s cat likes playing with wool.” But the cat hides behind the yarn basket instead of playing, so “playing with wool” gets scratched out. So does “riding bikes,” “funky hats,” “climbing trees,” and “bedtime stories” (though to be fair, it was a book about dogs). Eventually, after her cat has snubbed everything Matilda wants to do, she grumpily puts on her pj’s to go to bed, but all is well: there’s one thing the cat does like, and that’s Matilda. Gravett, the creator of Again! (2013), creates big, bold drawings against clean, white backgrounds, perfect for showcasing spunky Matilda, her uncooperative cat, and their odd-couple friendship, which happily succeeds even though they have nothing in common. Preschool-Grade 1. --Sarah Hunter
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Gravett’s humor generally runs from giddy to Gothic; in this story, it’s toward the sweeter end of the spectrum. Dressed in a cat costume, Matilda makes ambitious plans for her cat—and her cat ignores them. The text consists of pencil-scrawled lists of things that her cat “likes,” which get crossed out as they fail to prove true. “Matilda’s cat likes playing with wool,” writes Gravett (Again!) as the cat cowers behind the yarn basket. Matilda tries stacking cardboard boxes into a playhouse (“playing with wool, boxes”) and pedaling a trike (“playing with wool, boxes, and riding bikes!”); the cat leaps in the other direction. It turns out that a good cuddle is all it wants. The cumulative pile-up of failures, comic in itself, is augmented with many smaller giggles (a tea party in which Matilda gets all the treats and the cat is left with a banana). Both cat and child project a wild and humorous range of emotion, from the cat’s terror at a canine shadow puppet to Matilda’s perturbation that her pet would rather lick itself indecorously than participate in her best-laid plans. Ages 4–8. (Mar.) (Publishers Weekly)
MATILDA'S CAT [STARRED REVIEW!]
Author: Emily Gravett
Illustrator: Emily Gravett
Review Issue Date: January 15, 2014
Online Publish Date: January 8, 2014
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Pages: 32
Price (Hardcover ): $16.99
Price (e-book ): $12.99
Publication Date: March 18, 2014
ISBN (Hardcover ): 978-1-4424-7527-4
ISBN (e-book ): 978-1-4424-7528-1
Category: Picture Books
A master of animal countenance, Gravett pairs an expressive cat with a busy kid and winks at the difference between textual and visual message.
Matilda likes many things, including riding bikes, climbing trees, funky hats and fighting foes. Each spread shows Matilda playing at one thing while the text claims that her orange tabby enjoys it. “Matilda’s cat likes playing with wool,” it begins, as rosy-cheeked Matilda romps inside a huge, multicolored wool tangle and launches a ball of yarn toward the cat. He looks up with wide-eyed trepidation. On the next page, the words “playing with wool” are neatly crossed out and replaced by the word “boxes”: The narration now admits that tabby doesn’t like playing with wool but instead claims he likes Matilda’s box-stacking-and-hiding game (actually he looks alarmed). This pattern continues, the text asserting and then retracting (with cross-outs) what the cat likes. A tea party dismays him, as Matilda serves him an unpeeled banana. A bedtime story causes stiff-tailed, whiskers-on-end terror—though is it due to Matilda’s storybook, Gravett’s own Dogs (2010), or the large dog/wolf shadow puppet casually cast by her chubby fingers? Matilda sports a head-to-toe tabby suit, linking cat and girl all along; the shrewd and skillful art implies sly underlying affection even when the cat’s nonplussed, worried or asleep.
Even Matilda’s cat would like this. (Picture book. 3-6) (Kirkus)
Gravett’s humor generally runs from giddy to Gothic; in this story, it’s toward the sweeter end of the spectrum. (Publishers Weekly)
A master of animal countenance, Gravett pairs an expressive cat with a busy kid and winks at the difference between textual and visual message...the shrewd and skillful art implies sly underlying affection even when the cat’s nonplussed, worried or asleep. Even Matilda’s cat would like this. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
Dressed in a ginger cat costume, young Matilda tries to engage her pet cat in a variety of activities to no avail. Despite the narrative insistence that it’s her pet who likes these things (“Matilda’s cat likes playing with wool”), illustrations show the ginger tabby cat cowering at the ball of yarn lobbed at him by Matilda, running in fear from the bike, and watching, nonplussed, as Matilda clambers about in a couple of cardboard boxes. A fed-up Matilda eventually trades her cat suit for pajamas and heads for bed in a huff, but luckily, there is one thing that Matilda’s cat does like: Matilda. The final pages show Matilda and the cat snuggling in bed (followed by the cat savaging Matilda’s dog-shaped slippers). The listlike narrative is carefully and crisply structured, with activities satisfyingly listed in groups of three, save for the final reveal of the cat’s actual desire. Gravett’s simply composed pictures feature a blank white backdrop and keep the focus on the soft-edged but strong figures of the cat and Matilda, who resembles Sendak’s Max both in her furry outfit and clamorous demeanor. The contradiction between the text and the put-upon cat’s comical expressions is the real hoot here, and young pet owners will particularly relate to Matilda’s desire to have her cat behave according to her whims. This would partner well with the similarly themed Duncan and Dolores by Barbara Samuels (BCCB 3/87) or, for a contrasting portrait of activities favored by felines, with Schwartz’s There Are Cats in This Book (BCCB 12/08). JH
(BCCB, March 2014 )
“Dressed in a stripy cat suit, Matilda, who looks to be about 4, has all sorts of ideas for how to play with her similarly striped cat. But kitty turns her nose up at each activity Matilda proposes, from tree-climbing to bike-riding – even the promising prospect of fooling around with yarn. Gravett’s charming pictures of the determined girl and her skeptical cat are full of funny details as the two struggle to figure out what they have in common. Could it involve napping?” (New York Times Book Review )
The interplay between Emily Gravett's text and artwork are as humorous as the interactions of Matilda and her cat. Matilda, the girl heroine, dresses like her tabby in a costume bearing identical stripes, tail and ears. She clearly adores her pet. "Matilda's cat likes playing with wool," the text claims in penciled handwriting. The cat ducks behind a bin as the girl, tangled in multi-colored strands of yarn, lobs a ball of wool in her pet's direction. On the next page, the phrase "playing with wool" is crossed out and replaced with "boxes." The cat gazes nonchalantly at the girl as she peeks out of a two-story corrugated fortress. So begins Matilda's wish list of shared activities for her and her cat. The feline looks downright terrified of "riding bikes!" (having escaped from the trike's rear cargo box), and one of the funniest images shows the cat staring at a banana at Matilda's tea party (a smear of chocolate on the hostess's face indicates that she's having a fine time). While Matilda is off "fighting foes," her feline naps; her "bedtime stories" (Gravett's Dogs) make the cat hiss. But there is one thing they enjoy doing together: cuddling at bedtime. Gravett keeps her compositions spare; she uses only enough pattern or color to illustrate the item on Matilda's list. The focus remains entirely on the relationship between Matilda and her cat. Every child will be able to relate to Matilda's comical attempts to lure in her cat, and her complete inability to do so. (March 18, 2014 Shelf Awareness, STARRED REVIEW)
The day Matilda put on her cat suit and made mischief of one kind and another, her aloof and rather skittish feline just said, “No.” Despite the child’s best efforts, Matilda is unable to engage her pet in playing with wool or boxes, climbing trees, or riding bikes. After a failed tea party, drawing session, and bedtime story, the youngster takes off her cat suit and gets ready for bed and finally captures the tabby’s attention. The energetic watercolor artwork is pure Gravett, with plenty of visual jokes and with characters—girl and cat—who express their feelings with every fiber of their being. For every overly exuberant youngster who has ever attempted to win the affections of a feline, this picture book offers reassurances that the friendship bond will most like occur but perhaps not on the child’s timetable (April 2014 School Library Journal)
"[Matilda] resembles Sendak’s Max both in her furry outfit and clamorous demeanor...The contradiction between the text and the put-upon cat’s comical expressions is the real hoot here, and young pet owners will particularly relate to Matilda’s desire to have her cat behave according to her whims." (BCCB)
"Gravett’s charming pictures of the determined girl and her skeptical cat are full of funny details as the two struggle to figure out what they have in common." (New York Times Book Review)
*"The interplay between Emily Gravett's text and artwork are as humorous as the interactions of Matilda and her cat...Every child will be able to relate to Matilda's comical attempts to lure in her cat, and her complete inability to do so." (Shelf Awareness, starred review)
"The energetic watercolor artwork is pure Gravett, with plenty of visual jokes and with characters—girl and cat—who express their feelings with every fiber of their being." (School Library Journal)
Gravett, Emily
Matilda’s Cat
2014. 32pp. $16.99 hc. Simon & Schuster. 978-1-4424-7527-4. Grades K-3
Outfitted in her cat suit, Matilda entices her cat to play. She holds a tea party, climbs a tree, reads a storybook, and attempts other cat-centric activities. The cat is indifferent, disgusted, and even horrified. The text names each new activity in sentences beginning with “Matilda’s cat likes,” but as the cat demurs or protests, each item is crossed off. In spreads, the cat is on the left, sometimes almost running out of the book, thus reinforcing feline independence. It is not until the final spread that we see Matilda and her cat cuddling, and we learn there is one thing Matilda’s cat does like, Matilda! Gravett’s use of cat and dog motifs in the illustrations, and details such as the cat using the storybook as a platform for preening, enhance the unconditional relationship between Matilda and her tabby. Brenda Dales, Department of Teacher Education, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio [Editor’s Note: Available in e-book format.]
Recommended (Library Media Connection August/September 2014)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
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By Moira Morris
Had been looking for a book for my granddaughter Matilda for a long time. This book was perfect and so was the price. Matilda enjoyed receiving this book about her cat!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Matilda's Cat
By S Riaz
Emily Gravett, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is a fantastic author and illustrator for children. This charming picture book investigates the relationship betwen a young girl and her cat - as Matilda tries to discover what her cat really likes doing. Does she like to play with wool, boxes or funky hats? Her attempts to get her cat to join in playtime is not very successful, but the illustrations are engaging and will make your little one laugh. One of the things I love about Gravett's artwork is that she leaves much of the page blank, making it easy for children to concentrate on the illustrations - especially when you are reading the book aloud to a group of small children. Matilda gets a little exasperated in this story but, by the end, both Matilda and her cat have agreed on one thing that her pet really does like. This is a warm and sweet story, ideal for bedtime or storytime.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Check out the feline's facial expressions...they are priceless.
By Bob Walch
Cat lovers of all ages will like this picture book. The little girl featured here (her name is Matilda) is all decked out in a cute kitty costume and she makes a list of things that she thinks her cat likes to do. Really, these are things Matilda enjoys doing but not her cat. But no matter...there is one thing that Matilda's cat does like but you'll have to wait until the final page to discover what that "something" is.
Emily Gravett's minimalist approach works nicely in this book because she is a wizard at capturing the cat's facial expressions. This is one cool kitty and Matilda is cute as well. So, if you are a feline fancier and your child shares that love too, this is a must purchase. This book definitely goes in my granddaughter's future birthday box. Oh dear, the secret's out now !
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