Do You Have a Cat? by Eileen Spinelli (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers; $16.00; 32 pages)
“A cat who likes to caterwaul is better than no cat at all!”
There’s an old saying that dogs and their owners begin to look like each other. Well, I may be just a kitten but even I know that’s not true just for dogs… And this book, Do You Have a Cat?, proves me to be right. This book shows us – and especially the young humans in the reading audience – that 14 very famous people owned felines (that’s a cat, to you). And, guess what? These famous people looked just like their cats and vice-versa!
If you don’t believe me, just look at the swell drawings in this book. You’ll see that everyone from Cleopatra to Queen Victoria and Charles Lindbergh and Albert Schweitzer and President Calvin Coolidge owned very special cats, all of whom just happened to be the spitting-image of their home owners! And you’ll learn some very cool stuff, too, like the fact that President Coolidge went on the radio to tell the folks when his cat was lost. Luckily, for Cal, Tiger was soon found and returned to the White House!
So, I’m a young cat but I know good books. This one’s as good as a bowl of half-and-half!
Highly recommended.
Sasha (the kitten) Arellano
A review copy was provided by the publisher. Geraldo Valerio is the illustrator of this children’s book, recommended for ages 4 through 8. 
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