{"id":37802,"date":"2020-11-11T21:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37802"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:42:28","slug":"review-of-three-little-kittens-by-barbara-mcclintock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37802","title":{"rendered":"Review of Three Little Kittens, by Barbara McClintock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_little_kittens_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_little_kittens_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_little_kittens_large.jpg 249w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_little_kittens_large-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><em>Three Little Kittens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Barbara McClintock<\/p>\n<p>Scholastic Press, 2020.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written June 12, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>This book really made me smile.  It\u2019s from the song \u201cThe Three Little Kittens,\u201d and I think I love the book because I had a record of the song when I was a little girl and played it over and over.<\/p>\n<p>The book uses pictures with speech bubbles to tell the story in the song.  You couldn\u2019t exactly sing at the pace of the book \u2013 since there\u2019s plenty of extras \u2013 but all the lines are there.<\/p>\n<p>The kittens are adorable and full of energy, and some mysteries are solved.  Why did the kittens soil their mittens?  Because the pie was hot, and they used the mittens to eat it and made a mess.  When they wash the mittens, they also make a mess, but do clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>And at the end when they smell a mouse close by?  It turns out there\u2019s plenty of pie for all, so they invite him to join them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I mostly enjoyed this book because it makes me nostalgic, but the happy, exuberant kittens (and their messily eating pie with mittens) and their forbearing mother made me smile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/home\">scholastic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1338125877\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/3_little_kittens.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/3_little_kittens.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Little Kittens by Barbara McClintock Scholastic Press, 2020. 32 pages. Review written June 12, 2020, from a library book This book really made me smile. It\u2019s from the song \u201cThe Three Little Kittens,\u201d and I think I love the book because I had a record of the song when I was a little girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38189,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions\/38189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}