Love That Cat - Cat Books, Part 1

Rainbocalico by holly lu conant rees

Actually, I have no idea if there will be a Cat Books Part 2.
I am hoping you will send an indignant comment/email, 
"How could you forget about ______!"
Then I can write Part 2.
Here, in roughly reading level order: 
The Shy Little Kitten (Golden Book)
The Golden Book series offers 
gentle, sweet tales for kids, often with a
very sympathetic animal protagonist.
The Shy Little Kitten is by Cathleen Schurr and illustrated by 
Gustaf Tenggren, illustrator of The Poky Little Puppy.
Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat
by Cynthia Rylant.
The Henry and Mudge books are kid favorites.
with lots of illustrations and short, easy
chapters, these fun boy/dog tales are
great early readers. In this one Henry adopts
an ugly cat who becomes great friends with
his dog Mudge.
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
My boy loved this book because of its
poem format. He didn't engage with the
story of a boy struggling with his mother's
deafness. But he really enjoyed
the look of the words on the page and
all the other poems at the back of the 
book.
-Spectrum Mom

A Curious Collection of Cats

Once again it's April, and those of us affected by autism 
know why April is important.

Happy Poetry Month!
People with autism often have a special affinity
for poetry and today's books of poems will also
appeal to animal (especially cat) lovers.

Betsy Franco wrote the "concrete poems" in

A Curious Collection of Cats and Michael Wertz

did the illustrations.

In all the poems the shape of the poem relates

directly to its words (concrete poems).
The bright color block illustrations and the poems 
intertwine. Most include rhyme and humor - often
the humor is visual as in "q-tip and rosie" with
a happy cat dangling from a dog's mouth or
in both words and pictures as in the graphic
novel type treatment of "a question for scooter
about squirrels."

My boy's review:

A Curious Collection of Cats

It turned out that there were 34 poems in that book. 
Some were written in funny places. 

In the poem “The Cat Door”, 
there was a cat who tried to squeeze through the door. 

In each picture of the poem, 
some of the letters had gone away from the previous picture. 

"princess" by Franco and Wertz