It is the world we know but not as we know it. The experience is something like the seeing an image of a garden imagined from the perspective of an insect. Wenzel’s wonderful illustrations invite the reader into the eye of other animals. Unless you’re a teacher or librarian, a grown adult that does not work or live with children will come into very little contact with picture books. Bats recognise the cat through echolocation. They All Saw a Cat By Brendan Wenzel Chronicle Books 16.99 ISBN: 978-1-4521-5013-0 Ages 4-7 On shelves now It’s funny. A worm underground senses the cat through vibrations in the soil. Does a cat look the way we see it? As this book demonstrates, animals all perceive the world in different ways.Ī dog sees the cat as a nuisance, the mouse sees the cat as danger, and a fox sees the cat as prey (or certainly an easy target). They All Saw A Cat works along similar lines, with the text and the illustrations working together to challenge the reader to think more deeply about things that they take for granted.
While the book is not included in this packet and must be purchased separately, and while I have no affiliation with the author, I have put together a few speech and language activities that go with the story.
A Stone Sat Still stands out among the picture books I have reviewed for its apparently simple language and abstract themes. They All Saw a Cat, by Brendan Wenzel, follows the vision of a cat walking through the eyes of several different animals. It is as simple – and as complex – as that.īrendan Wenzel’s work is always mind-blowing. Along the way it greets a child and a mouse and fox and all kinds of other creatures.
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