“So she went back home-and there was a great big bowl of milk on the porch, just waiting for her. Lucky Kitten!“
“So she went back home-and there was a great big bowl of milk on the porch, just waiting for her. Lucky Kitten!“
Children of any age would love this book and the simple illustrations of a young kitten exploring.
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes, 2004. Caldecott Award Winning Book. This is a very cute, simple story about a kitten who desperately wants to get a bowl of milk in the sky, not realizing that it is a full moon. The illustration shows an adorable kitten jumping, falling, and exploring the world around her to get to the “bowl of milk“. The illustrations are black and white and look like pencils.
She leaped with all her might...poor kitten she was wet and sad and tired and hungry.
Kitten is trying to get her bowl of milk throughout the whole story and still cannot find her bowl of milk. She keeps getting closer but can never catch it!
In this story it is kittens first full moon. The kitten finds a bowl waiting just for her. And is chasing it throughout the story.
“Kitten thought that surely that big bowl of milk was waiting just for her. “
One night, a kitten looks up at the sky and sees a full bowl of milk. The kitten goes on an adventure to drink from the bowl of milk. She finds herself at a pond where she thinks she will get milk only to find out it is not milk it is the moon.
Kitten was looking for a bowl of milk. But what she saw was a big, round, glowing moon.” This quote captures Kitten‘s initial confusion and sets the stage for her delightful adventure.