The Cat on the Mat Is Flat

Very good read for young people

We love this book. It's hard to find interesting reading for a dyslexic 12 year old. Books at his reading level are too babyish. This is fantastic! Right at his level, so he can read alone, and so hilarious! I love hearing him giggle as he reads! Finally something he can get excited about and not moan and complain about reading!

I am a reading tutor for elementary grades, mostly. My students love this book because of its silliness. I love it because it uses the same rhyming sounds for the whole chapter. Very useful tool for encouraging reading.

100 times better that See Spot Run and that other stuff! This content is funny and some of the stories even have morals and stuff. Great book!

I ordered this book for my daughter who is in 3rd grade. She is a struggling reader and it is hard to find books that she can read easily that actually hold her interest. She is also starting to get self-concious about how a book "looks" - wants it to be a "chapter book" but can't always read them. She loved this book and read it straight through the first night she got it. It took her about 40 minutes, which is twice as long as she normally reads, and she didn't stop every 5 minutes to ask me how much longer she had to read for! She told me she wants to read it again which is also something I have a hard time getting her to do and even asked me to order more of the series. Thank you Andy Griffiths!

I like it but please make it free because I have no money to buy books from you. Hi my name is Zoe and i love my kindle

i enjoyed reading it to my kids and my kids also love reading it themselves (age 5, 6). It's fun, not any less than Dr Seuss, and the illustrations were fun too (so what if not in color). i personally like the cat on the mat better than the big fat cow... the stories are longer and rhymes more entertaining.

What a clever way to not only amuse but draw the reader (in this case a 6 year old boy) into reading more & more! My son is so excited to be reading this thick, chapter book. Maybe a first grade level. He laughs at all the black and white drawings and really enjoys the humor. A wonderful, rhyming, reader disgused aa a "big kid" book. Bravo!

I teach a literacy intervention program to primary school students. As they learn their letters and sounds, we read decodable readers together. This book was recommended for students who are moving away from decodable readers and starting to read 'real' books. I plan to use it with Year 1 and 2 students but haven't yet. Most of the stories are quite short but I think they would be entertaining for young kids. Even though there are simple, decodable words (eg. cat, mat), there are other words that they would struggle to read without help (eg. around, enough), but I guess that's the point of moving to these kinds of books. What I don't like is the paper and printing used in this book. As you can see in my photo, the pictures and text from the other side of each page bleed through, which detracts from the funny pictures. I think it would be better as separate colour picture books. That would also make it easier for me to use with kids because I don't think I will bother to buy class sets, and the size isn't good for me to hold up in class. It's a shame.

思ったより早く楽しみにしていた本が娘が面白いと読んでました。