Curious Kittens

This is a simple story about 3 kitties that want to learn to swim like a goldfish. They watch a fish, find an empty bowl, take turns climbing into it and finally decide that swimming is much harder than it looks. The pictures are darling. Appropriate for preschool age and up. I bought it for my grown daughter who was a competitive swimmer all through high school. She loves it and plans to share it with her children.

My daughter (4.5) checked this book out from her school library. She was actually able to read most of the words herself. I helped her with the rest, and now she has it completely memorized. It's a great book for beginning readers because it doesn't have a lot of words on each page, but it's much more interesting than "the dog ran..." The pictures are wonderful and the little story is precious. My youngest daughter even asks me to read it to her, and she is not a "booky" person like her big sis! Sadly, we have to return the book tomorrow. I definitely recommend this book! Hopefully, her library will have Volkmann's puppy book too!

The pictures in this book are so adorable! And the story is equally charming. The kittens watch a goldfish and trying to decide if they can swim too. How Mr. Volkmann got these kittens to pose in some of these pictures is a mystery to me. I highly recommend this book for children learning to read (my daughter is about to turn four) and for younger children who you read to.