Let's Say Hi to Friends Who Fly! (Cat the Cat)

by Mo Willems

Hardcover, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Balzer Bray (2010), Library Binding, 32 pages

Description

An exuberant cat cheers on her friends as they demonstrate whether or not they can fly.

User reviews

LibraryThing member pvw

Let's Say HI to Friends Who FLY!
Mo Willems
Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, 32p.
2010
Hardcover, Early Reader
Ages 4-8
Cat the Cat walks around the playground, greeting his friends who can fly: Bee the Bee, Bird the Bird, Bat the Bat... and Rhino the Rhino? Willems' characters are funny and animated. Kids

will have fun tracing each friend's dotted flight path, which has a sound effect appropriate to the animal, and cheering on the flying animals: "Go, Bee the Bee!" Repeated phrases will help kids get comfortable reading this book in just a few pages.

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LibraryThing member missbrandysue

The cat (Cat the Cat) is asking a bee, bird, bat, and rhino if they can fly. The rhino says he cans and on the next pages is flying an airplane.

A rather simple book of maybe 12 pages (which I thought picture books had to be 32 but I'm no professional...). It would have to be for very basic

preschoolers to learn how to read a book. I did enjoy how the rhino flies in the plane to add some humor and thinking on the part of the child. But too simple for me. :)

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LibraryThing member pussreboots

Let's Say Hi to Friends Who Fly! by Mo Willems is part of his new series of emergent reader books staring Cat the cat. As annoying as a name that might seem, repetition has been shown to help some beginning readers (Lynch-Brown, Tomlinson, & Short, 2010). These books are aimed at that subset of

readers.

Cat the cat is at the playground and wants to introduce, you, the reader, to his friends who fly. There's Bat the Bat, Bee the bee, Bird the bird and so forth. As the book progresses, things start to get a little silly to reward first time readers for their efforts.

When my daughter was first learning to read at the start of 2011, the Cat the cat books were perfect for her. She liked them enough that we still sometimes call Caligula cat, "Cat the cat." The books gave her the confidence in her reading to move onto the funnier but more complicated Elephant and Piggie series (also by Mo Willems).

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LibraryThing member LFerda

A good book for young children who like animals.
The students will enjoy listening to the Cat in a read-aloud setting or as individual practice.

LibraryThing member sweetiegherkin

Mo Willems's previously introduced character Cat the Cat returns to meet some other animals and find out if they can fly.

I love Willems's philosophy about writing for children, which I'll paraphrase (because I don't remember the specific wordage, just the spirit of it): "Children aren't stupider

than adults, they're just shorter." It doesn't seem like Willems followed his own advice with this book, as it isn't as clever as his other books. There really isn't a plot to speak of or any particularly interesting language choices (e.g., alliteration or rhyming). There's a quick visual reference to the Pigeon character, which is fun but brief. Otherwise, there's not a ton to recommend this book, and I'd much rather point readers in the direction of some of Willems's much more hilarious works.

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LibraryThing member jennybeast

On my highest choice for very beginning readers. Mo Willems, I don't know how you manage to rock absolutely everything you write, but this series is no exception.

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