Official Review: The Christmas Cats Care for the Bear

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Re: Official Review: The Christmas Cats Care for the Bear

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This is a great review, and you seem to have picked out all the most important points that are necessary for a successful children's book. I appreciate it when the author tries to include activities at the end, to 'round off' the learning experience for the reader. I am also a big fan of rhyming stories for kids - I think I enjoy it even more than they do! :D Thanks for your comments on this book.
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I agree with you that this is Christmas-oriented, just learning that the borders of the illustrations are in red and green. That is unmistakably the yuletide season's branding marks. I might still want to read this, notwithstanding the market-target of its readership as 4th graders. I consider myself still a child in many, many ways. Thanks for your interesting review.
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sonya01 wrote: 07 Nov 2018, 17:24 This is a great review, and you seem to have picked out all the most important points that are necessary for a successful children's book. I appreciate it when the author tries to include activities at the end, to 'round off' the learning experience for the reader. I am also a big fan of rhyming stories for kids - I think I enjoy it even more than they do! :D Thanks for your comments on this book.
There is just something about rhyming that captures our attention, right? Thanks for your comments.
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ReyvrexQuestor Reyes wrote: 07 Nov 2018, 21:22 I agree with you that this is Christmas-oriented, just learning that the borders of the illustrations are in red and green. That is unmistakably the yuletide season's branding marks. I might still want to read this, notwithstanding the market-target of its readership as 4th graders. I consider myself still a child in many, many ways. Thanks for your interesting review.
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This can be a really good children's book if the errors are fixed. This is a very detailed review.
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The message is important because children tend to shun those who are different. It's a shame about the errors though. Great review!
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Cotwani wrote: 09 Nov 2018, 16:24 The message is important because children tend to shun those who are different. It's a shame about the errors though. Great review!
It's definitely an important topic and a cute book. Hopefully, the author can edit it some. Thanks.
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The book was good the theme of them book is great it sounds like it would be a great child’s blog and I do like cats
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Great book for children to learn from that nobody is the sane and we all need help.
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The cover was catchy. I think there was something to learn. Thanks for the great review! I loved it.
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It's unfortunate that there are issues, but it still sounds like a really cute book for kids with a great lesson. This is definitely one that I will have to pick up for my niece and nephew. Great review!
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Thanks @Dlu019! Thanks @paul1215!
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Nusrat_Shabnam_ wrote: 10 Dec 2018, 01:09 The cover was catchy. I think there was something to learn. Thanks for the great review! I loved it.
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Mbrooks2518 wrote: 16 Apr 2019, 15:00 It's unfortunate that there are issues, but it still sounds like a really cute book for kids with a great lesson. This is definitely one that I will have to pick up for my niece and nephew. Great review!
It is a cute book. Perhaps by now the author has taken care of some of the grammatical errors. Thanks for your comment.
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