Miss Hazeltine's Home for Shy and Fearful Cats

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 11, 2015

Review

The illustrations are water color and ink details. As you can imagine from the title there are kittens hiding everywhere within the pictures.

The story is about Crumb the most frightened kitten of all. He only hides under the bed, but Miss Hazeltine praises him for his being brave of the dark. People bring her cats from all over, and cats find their way there on their own. Some are afraid of birds, mice, pouncing, and scary noises. Miss H. gives them lessons in how to overcome their fears. One night she goes out to get more milk and she gets hurt and doesn't come home. But Crumb knows where she has gone and leads the cats to save her.

Story has good vocabulary, uses alliteration, and does a nice job of teaching how to overcome shyness and fears.

Overall Book Score: very good