The Kitten Who Misplaced His Meow by Veda M. Fowler

The Kitten Who Misplaced His Meow by Veda M. Fowler

“Excellent for early readers, this 68-page youngsters’s ebook encompasses a diversified solid to show an important lesson of persistence and compassion.”

What do a pair of curious twins, an ornery outdated man and a surprisingly silent cat all have in frequent? Nicely, the 4 of them are the main focus of Veda M. Fowler’s insightful story, The Kitten Who Misplaced His Meow. Excellent for early readers, this 68-page youngsters’s ebook encompasses a diversified solid to show an important lesson of persistence and compassion. 

A Winter Shock

It’s winter in Vermont, and whereas everybody else appears to be having fun with the season, eight-year-old twins Charlie and Chloe are struggling to do the identical. With their father abroad in Afghanistan, it appears like this would be the second Christmas with out him. The twins do their finest to distract themselves with winter enjoyable and go to construct a snowman — however every thing adjustments when the clump of snow close to Chloe begins to transfer.

It seems that the snowball just isn’t a snowball in any respect, however a kitten dusted with snow. The women deliver him inside, the place they wrap the shivering kitten in blankets and feed him heat milk. With the assistance of their mom and the city veterinarian, the newly named Mr. Chris (brief for Mr. Christmas) grows wholesome and robust. However irrespective of how a lot Chloe and Charlie play with him, he by no means makes a sound.

An Unlikely Friendship

Mr. Chris’ lacking meow isn’t the one thriller that’s hit their city. It appears that evidently outdated Mr. Feldman, recognized all through the neighborhood for being quite crotchety, had disappeared. However crotchety or not, Chloe and Charlie are decided to unravel this lacking individual’s case and discover their lacking neighbor. The women poke round Mr. Feldman’s home … solely to find fairly the shock. Mr. Feldman hasn’t disappeared in any respect — he’s simply determined that he gained’t be going exterior any longer. “Nobody likes me on the market,” he tells the youngsters, “so I’m higher off on my own.”

Sworn to secrecy by Mr. Feldman, the twins marvel how they can assist the person if he refuses to go exterior. They agree on bringing Mr. Chris with them on their visits, within the hope that he would possibly deliver a smile to the outdated man’s face. That’s precisely what Mr. Chris does — and as Charlie and Chloe watch the 2 get alongside, they provide you with an thought that might resolve each issues directly.

Classes to Final a Lifetime

The Kitten Who Misplaced His Meow doesn’t maintain again on advanced subjects for its target market to wrestle with. There’s a myriad of classes to be realized from the textual content — the significance of kindness and of not retaining severe secrets and techniques from grown-ups (and that breaking and coming into just isn’t very good!). It additionally gives youngsters a peek into the loneliness epidemic of seniors, and the way intergenerational friendships can profit each events in methods they couldn’t even think about.

The illustrations interspersed all through act as respiration room for younger readers, moments to allow them to soak up the story’s morals. And as they comply with Charlie and Chloe’s story to its conclusion — with two shock company at Christmas and items that might deliver a smile to anybody’s face — children will come out of the story with a brand new understanding and appreciation for the folks round them. So if you happen to’re looking for a ebook to show youngsters in regards to the energy of empathy, look no additional.

Publish Date: 12/1/2023

Style: Kids’s Books

Writer: Veda M. Fowler

Web page Depend: 68 pages

Writer: Dorrance Publishing Co.

ISBN: 9798888122624