Cat Care: Nutrition, Exercise, Grooming, and More

K-Gr 2—This series goes beyond the basics to give young cat owners practical information about their pets. Each title contains common features, such as four chapters, a hands-on activity, and culminating critical thinking questions linked to the Common Core. Cat Speak provides a lot of material on cat behavior, even mentioning the role of genes in how instinct is developed. Favorite Cat Breeds details a brief and somewhat enlightening feline history. While the authors don't mention domestication directly, they do note a difference (however slight) between when people kept cats around for their useful qualities and when cats were brought into the home as pets. Cat Shows includes some of the costs associated with entering a competition, and though these numbers are general and unsourced, they are a refreshing acknowledgement that pets come with a price. New words such as mutation and crepuscular are bold and defined on the page and in the glossary.