![]() ![]() 3-6)Ī pleasing poem that celebrates babies around the world. This lesson in assertiveness-hardly clouded by the notion that a good swat is the answer to fear-gives preschoolers a congenial view of the things that frighten the kitten in gleefully expressive illustrations adults may gain a new sense of just how big and forbidding the world can appear to the very young. When the kitten mistakes the dog's nose for an ``eensie-weensie'' spider and takes a swing at Scratchpooch, ``Kapow!'' and this scaredy cat is transformed into Tiger Cat: ``WOW!/are eensie-weensie spiders/scared of me!'' The upbeat message-that courage may be only a matter of perspective-lights up a cheerful comedy from Rankin (The Little Cat and the Greedy Old Woman, 1995), who shows Tiger, in the last scene, going nose-to-nose with a huge neighborhood dog. ![]() The narrator also dislikes crocodiles (``Auntie B.'s shoes'') and the dark forest that is really the four hairy legs of Auntie B.'s dog, Scratchpooch. ``I don't like GIANTS,'' reports a small quivering kitten, but Mama Meow reassures her child that this particular giant is their kindly owner, Auntie B. ![]()
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