Terabith Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 What would be a good book for my husband to read as a mystery book reader for 3-5 year olds WITH our harnessed cat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Tiggywinkle Again Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 My kids loved the Nate the Great series at that age. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pintosrock Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 It should be a book featuring cats! Pete the Cat? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Blues Clues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 https://imaginationsoup.net/best-mystery-picture-books-thinking/ I found this list, which has a few choices with cat characters. I'm not familiar with most of these books, but it gives you some ideas to research. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 26 minutes ago, Pintosrock said: It should be a book featuring cats! Pete th 26 minutes ago, Pintosrock said: It should be a book featuring cats! Pete the Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 Not sure why it quoted twice or why it wouldn’t let me type but Pete the Cat sounds perfect. 1 hour ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle Again said: My kids loved the Nate the Great series at that age. I love Nate the Great but I think it’s too long for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Two cat read alouds that I love: Cookie's Week Mog and Bunny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Richard Scarry's The Supermarket Mystery, The Great Steamboat Mystery, or The Great Pie Robbery. One of the detectives in each book is a cat. Love these!!! Edited February 22, 2023 by MercyA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Terabith, are you specifically looking for mysteries? I don't think Pete the Cat is a mystery, but I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I'm assuming this is a "mystery reader" not a person reading "mystery books". Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats has a cat and a little bit of mystery. It might be long for your class of very young 3's though, especially when they are distracted by an actual cat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichola Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes. All of my kids enjoyed that one as preschoolers. It is a mystery, although I don’t think the other books in the series are. Edited February 22, 2023 by Nichola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, BandH said: I'm assuming this is a "mystery reader" not a person reading "mystery books". Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats has a cat and a little bit of mystery. It might be long for your class of very young 3's though, especially when they are distracted by an actual cat! Yeah, honestly, I don’t think it makes sense for my class to have a mystery reader. Our attention spans are too short for ANY book, really, in a group, even without a cat. Probably the older two classes and cat might just visit other classrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 2 hours ago, MercyA said: Richard Scarry's The Supermarket Mystery, The Great Steamboat Mystery, or The Great Pie Robbery. One of the detectives in each book is a cat. Love these!!! Yeah, the book definitely doesn’t have to be a mystery. It’s just who is going to come and read to the kids that’s a mystery. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyroo Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes Nice and short for the younger set, and with a fun repetitive hook that they can engage with. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 12 minutes ago, wendyroo said: My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes Nice and short for the younger set, and with a fun repetitive hook that they can engage with. I can still quote much of that one 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 I've been racking my brains since I saw the thread title for mystery novels suitable for precocious readers! Then I got confused, and through you and your dh read to cats, and that the cat likes mystery novels, but because he/she is a cat, the reading level is preschool. This made sense in a strange way? I though you harnessed the cat for story time otherwise he or she wouldn't sit for the story.... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 59 minutes ago, Terabith said: Yeah, the book definitely doesn’t have to be a mystery. It’s just who is going to come and read to the kids that’s a mystery. Ah. I missed that. Obviously. In that case, here are some of my family's favorites: Kittens Are Like That The Little Kitten by Judy Dunn The Four Little Kittens (a Golden Book) Six-Dinner Sid Where Is That Cat? Fishhead Only the Cat Saw (has an illustration of a breast-feeding momma, just FYI) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 There's an Eric Carle book that's something like Are you my cat? or Have You Seen my Cat? that would be good for the 3 yr olds. The Color Kittens could be a fun one for the 5 yr olds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 In my experience toddlers like a mix of super familiar and new, so if I was asking them to listen in a group (a really new skill for 2 and 3 year olds) in the presence of a harnessed cat (even newer!) and their teachers husband (kind of a mind blowing concept) I would have him read a familiar book. When my kids were that age Brown Bear was a beloved book with a cat, as was Goodnight Moon so I would pick one of those. But pick whatever your kids know well. Then I would modify the book so that the picture of the purple cat was a picture of Aslan or the “two little kittens” were your kittens, because that would be a fun surprise! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanin Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On 2/22/2023 at 2:36 PM, Terabith said: What would be a good book for my husband to read as a mystery book reader for 3-5 year olds WITH our harnessed cat? That's quite the question! :-D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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