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    Big Cat, Little Cat: (Caldecott Honor Book)

    By Elisha Cooper

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    About this ebook

    A 2018 Caldecott Honor book

    There was a cat
    who lived alone.
    Until the day
    a new cat came . . .

    And so a story of friendship begins, following the two cats through their days, months, and years until one day, the older cat has to go. And he doesn’t come back.

    This is a poignant story, told in measured text and bold black-and-white illustrations about the act of moving on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781250155979
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    Big Cat, Little Cat: (Caldecott Honor Book)
    Author

    Elisha Cooper

    Elisha Cooper is an author / illustrator who has received a Caldecott Honor for Big Cat, Little Cat, and his following book River won the 2020 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. One of his earlier books, Dance!, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, and Beach won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. In 2016 he was awarded a Sendak Fellowship. His essays and sketchbooks have appeared in the sports section of The New York Times. Cooper lives with his wife, daughters, and cats in New York City.

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    • 5/5
      I'm a sucker for cat stories, and this one pleased me very much. A big cat lived alone until a kitten entered the household. The big cat mentored the smaller cat. They were playmates for life until the older cat left and did not return. Then the cycle continues with the once younger cat mentoring a new addition. The black and white illustrations reminded me of a cat story I owned as a child entitled Rich Cat, Poor Cat. While my book may have had a little more color and grayscale to it, the illustrations were sparse, just like this one. The simplicity of the illustrations is effective. It's deserving of its Caldecott honor.
    • 4/5
      This spare, black and white story tells of a lonely cat whose life is changed when a kitten enters the home. The older cat teaches the younger cat how to be a cat, and the two are inseparable until the day that the older cat leaves and doesn't return. Any reader who has ever loved and lost a pet will relate to this story. The drawings are a little too sparse for my taste. Some pages look enough like a coloring book that parents, teachers, librarians, etc. might want to make sure that the crayons are put away before pulling this book out.
    • 5/5
      When a tiny kitten is introduced into the life of a solitary older cat, the older cat becomes a mentor to the younger one, who eventually grows up and becomes the inseparable companion of his erstwhile teacher. When Big Cat grows old and eventually dies, Little Cat is, together with his human family, left desolate. Until the day that a tiny kitten is introduced into his life, and he finds himself moving from the role of Little Cat to that of Big Cat...A spare and poignant tale is paired with simple but immensely powerful illustrations in Big Cat, Little Cat, which explores the cycle of life, death and new life through the story of three felines, all of whom live in the same city apartment. The text is rather plain, full of declarative sentences - "There was a cat," it begins - but is all the more moving for its simplicity. The narrator, having told us that Big Cat has grown old, gone away, and not come back, declares "And that was hard," an understatement that packs quite an emotional punch. The artwork, done mostly in black and white, with a few pages containing a sepia background, is stark but expressive. There is so much white space on the page - and isn't it refreshing to see an artist who isn't afraid of blank space?! - that the figures of the cats stand out all the more, making every detail more visible, more endearing, more powerful. A beautiful little book, Big Cat, Little Cat is one I would recommend to anyone looking for children's stories about companionship, love, loss, and healing.
    • 4/5
      Very affecting with simple yet fully expressive line drawings. Fave line: "For five minutes each day they went wild." Lol, cats!
    • 5/5
      The pictures in this book are enough to bring you through a wild range of emotions in the three to five minutes it takes to read this book. It covers, love, growth, death, grief, acceptance and many other issues a child may encounter. The simplicity of the book is the best part, it doesn't need anything more.
    • 5/5
      new cat, cat grows old over time and 'goes away' and that is hard ... then, a new cat
    • 5/5
      Nice book. My six year old daughter loves it.
    • 5/5
      This book touched my heart so powerfully in its simplicity. Love and kittens!✌??
    • 5/5
      My daughter Devyn found it very pretty and poignant.verrrra niccccccccccccee.
    • 5/5
      "I liked it 100 thousand million catios" -Finn (4 years old)
    • 5/5
      Simply told. Simply illustrated. Simply enchanting!
      Cats contribute so much spirituality to our lives.