Little Kitten Wants a Friend (Photo Adventure Books)

Photo Adventure books include interactive text and fun facts about baby animals. This series is a non-fiction / fiction hybrid, blending a fictional adventure with fun facts and featuring spectacular photography of the baby animals in their natural habitat.

Little Kitten Wants a Friend:

Join a baby kitten as she tries to find a friend to play with her. She finds birds, mice, and even a goldfish, but none of them want to play. Will she ever find a friend? Throughout the story, special "Fact Stops" offer interesting bits of information about kittens.

PreS-Gr 1–These books incorporate full-color photographs of baby animals to tell a simple story while also offering information, called “Fact Stops,” on each page. The titles open with an introduction for parents, which serves to establish the books' purpose and offer tips as to how they can be read by the parent, the child, or together. The fact that the books start with instructions takes the fun out of them from the get-go, and the pedestrian story lines don't help. Little Kitten is more bearable than Baby Tiger because the story unfolds without quite so much interference from the Fact Stops. Discussion questions at the end of each book will be meaningless unless readers have read each Fact Stop. The color photos will appeal to animal lovers, but they're nothing special. Purchase only where regimented readers are in demand.–Kara Schaff Dean, Walpole Public Library, MA. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.