Genre
Humorous stories
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Noisy
Silly
Writing Style
Attention-grabbing
Illustration
Big and bold
Cartoony
Subject
Animal sounds
Cats
Farm animals
Grouches
Magic
Spells (Magic)

Meh.

Surprisingly I do not love all the picture books, although I don't bother to read or review many that don't delight me. Despite the cat, the book didn't work for me. Perhaps it was just too rushed, but the premise has no internal logic to support it, and if your premise is fantastic everyone's responses need to remain internally consistent.

Cute pictures though.

Library copy. ( )

The story is about a cat that gets annoyed with the rooster making so much noise in the morning. Cat, then decides to cast a spell and all the farm animals make a different farm animal noise. At the end cat gets what he deserves. It would be a great story to teach moral. Children can also use this book to make inferences and predictions about the story. Additionally this book is funny. I ( )

Cat lives on a farm with many other animals. The rooster wakes him up every morning, and Cat thinks the farm is too noisy. He casts a spell on the animals, and they all switched voices! The animals were upset that they were unable to speak in their normal language, so they find Cat and make him give them their voices back! However, when Cat went to reverse the spell, the one thing that didn't work when Cat tried to reverse the spell, he wound up with Rooster's voice instead of his own! The rest of the animals thought it was appropriate that he was unable to speak in his own voice, as he is the one who set the spell on all of them. ( )

Emma Dodd's "Meow Said the Cow," is a cute tale of an irritable cat who switches all of the animals voices with whom he shares the farm with to teach them a lesson about being noisy. In the end, the animals get the cat switched with the rooster's voice, to teach him a lesson about picking on others. This would be a perfect story to tell children in order to teach them about accepting other's differences and what happens when you are mean to others. ( )