Cleo the Cat Book

Little ones will love Cleo! She's an inquisitive orange cat searching for a friend -- and a home. As Cleo ventures through the garden and inside a house, she happily discovers everything she's been looking for. Featuring simple, rhyming text and bold, bright illustrations filled with visual clues, Cleo the Cat will captivate the youngest audiences.

Publishers Weekly

Mockford's (What's This?) brief rhyming text describes a lonely cat that finds a friend and a home. A seemingly continuous black line provides a bold outline for Cleo the cat's warm orange and red tones. The feline wakes in a field painted in thick, textured brushstrokes and bursting with gingham flowers. The dense spreads, filled with geometric shapes and patterns, carry the basic story line ("Cleo finds a house/ Cleo looks inside/ Cleo hears a noise!/ Cleo tries to hide"). A Teddy bear leans against a bicycle; a soccer ball rests in a doorway. The closing pages find Cleo asleep on the lap of a child who has fed the cat and clearly taken a fancy to it. Youngsters, too, will likely have a soft spot for Cleo. Ages 1-6. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.