Little Kitten Wants a Friend (Photo Adventure) - Hardcover

Michael Teitelbaum is the author of more than 150 books, including tie-in novelizations based on movies and television shows as varied as Spider-Man, Superman, Avatar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Smallville, X-Men, Batman, Transformers, Garfield, and Kermit the Frog.

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.