Have You Seen My Cat?: A Slide-and-Peek Board Book (The World of Eric Carle)

My daughter got this book as a gift from our registry. She loved it. Wanted to read it every day. Multiple times per day. Eventually she destroyed it. Pulled out every tab and peeled apart pages even after we taped them up.The book is repetitive. I used to hide it, but baby always wanted it back. So, I did what moms do, and I bought her a new copy. We keep this one out of her reach while letting her play with the other one.We’ve seen other versions of this book, and the pull tab one is by far the best.Get a copy, or two! For your child if they like cats. Their glee is worth it.

I gift this book to all new babies who come to live on my block. It’s cute, simple, artistic and I hope will help them love cats as much as I do.

This book is well made with great pictures. A cute story of a boy trying to find his cat with a surprise ending! Love this book. Sure to give lots of reading fun with you and your favorite little one.

A classic by the beloved Eric Carle-great illustrations and clever repeating phrases gives the opportunity to the listeners to participate in the reading of the book.

I got this because my current version had been pretty banged up by some other kids and my son and I are a bit of a perfectionist with our books (or maybe I am and have successfully passed the ideal down to him even though he's only 3). Our previous book was only a flip book and this one has slide out tabs. I have a love/hate relationship with these tabs. In a way, it's more fun for him because he gets to do more while reading with me than flipping the pages, but when we lay in bed to read they are placed right where my hands hold the books and they apply to both sides - and with so few words I feel like we are just rushing from one tab to pull out to another. I still love this book, and my son (3 yr old) took about three read through a before he was able to identify each animal to me and start quoting the story. It's nice. But I think I would have preferred to just flip the pages.

Im doing tbe teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons book with my 4 year old. Were over half theough it so we started her in real books to see how she does. this book is recommended in the backnof the 100 book and she can read it all by herself !Plus its very repetitious good for toddlers learming to speak !

This book is one of my 18 month old daughters favorite. At first when I got this book as a gift I didn't think much of it, but once my daughter was around 10/11months she loved hearing and being surprised by the peek a boo pages. She points to all the hidden "imposter" cats and gets so excited and claps when the cat is finally found.. We have now gone through 3 of these books because she likes to "explore" the book on her own. She has taken apart all the double pages 'looking for the cat".. My only suggestion is maybe keep it out of reach as an only read together book, or keep multiple copies if you have a tactile child like we do. ( I just keep buying multiple used copies because I know how important it is for her to explore and manipulate the books on her own)

I understand repetitiveness is important to help little ones talk and predict what Is come next, but this book literally only has two lines. “have you seen my cat?”, “this is not my cat”. My son laughed reading it, but not sure he would have if I wasn’t reading it in a very animated way. Eric Carle has some great books, I would say this is my sons least favorite.

The question is: "Have you seen my Cat? The slide out answer is, "That's not my cat!" until the last page "That's my cat". The little boy travels around the world asking this question, to Persia, the rainforest, Africa and more. So its a good way of talking about different countries, and the boy's increasing frustration, and the fact he kept on looking and showed persistence! Also the slide-out flaps show different "Big cats" such as Puma, bobcat, panther which are also classified on the last page.For a small, simple book, rich in possibilities and strong on interaction. I am reviewing the small board book version which is about 6" by 5".The usual charming colourful illustrations!Charming. I am an Eric Carle Fan!Other really nice titles:Little Cloud (charming and can be linked with easy art activities)Papa, please get the Moon for me (stunning, very sophisticated)The Very Busy Spider (with a thread which is tactile on each page)The Bad Tempered Ladybird (superb - really funny!)Brown Bear, Brown Bear - lovely for teaching colours. Great version read by Carle himself on You Tube. Search, "Brown Bear Brown Bear Eric Carle"Do you want to be my Friend? About a little mouse - no words, all inferred.From Head to Toe (Imitation, body parts)and not forgetting the one and only, "The Very Busy Caterpillar".There is also a small board book set which concentrates on numbers, colours etc.The CD stories of some of these are invariably lovely, very soothing with fantastic music. Video of the Very Hungry Caterpillar - well worth a look. As is Eric Carle's art website on the internet.There are more but these are the ones I think are superb and loved by children. I have found them instrumental in language and art development.

Firstly I have been sent a book that has dents in it, one of the pull out tabs is missing and om one od the other pages its broken so the pull out tab falls out. Honestly I wouldn't care about the dent or the broken page as I could fix the broken page. Its the fact you have sent me a book with a missing piece. I paid over £5 for a book thats probably worth about 50p broken/ used and battered. In future I will just be buying for book stores

My 22 month old loves cats so really likes this book. She likes pulling the sliding pages out but is a bit rough and has pulled some out completely. These can still be slid in and out as before but just don't stop anymore so continue to come right out if pulled. They could get lost now too. She also bends some of the pages when they are slid out. She does enjoy the gimmick so maybe the weakness introduced to the otherwise sturdy book is worth it.

Great boardbook for little fingers-2 year old knows all the cats and corrects her mum!We read it every night as well as the other Eric Carle books- I love them too!

Just what the kids wanted they love it , fast delivery good price what more can you ask