Cats Are a Liquid
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Celebrate cats in all their flowing, furry glory in Cats Are a Liquid, a charming picture book that examines the unusual physical properties of felines by writer Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Misa Saburi.
Cats fill./ Cats spill./ Cats flow downhill.// Cats tip./ Cats drip./ Cats grip, snip, rip.// Cats are a liquid/ Except when they’re not.
Inspired by an Ig Nobel Prize–winning investigation of how cats behave like liquids, this book introduces some of the physical properties of liquids—they adapt to fit a container, they flow like fluids—and is just pure fun.
Like its inspiration, it makes you laugh, then think. Back matter includes a brief introduction to the different physical states: solid, liquid, gas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Inspired by an actual scientific paper, this amusing STEM picture book explores whether and how cats are a liquid "based on the way cats... fill up any container they squeeze themselves into. As Donnelly's loose, easy rhymes ("Cats slop./ Cats plop./ Cats drizzle,/ slosh,/ flop") playfully probe the proposition, cleverly riffing on liquid's qualities, the book's humor is largely visual. Digital illustrations by Saburi fully exploit the investigation with screwball scenes of kitties stuffed into beakers, lying melted in a patch of sun, drifting through the sky like mist, and wreaking classic cat havoc as they're tested by an inclusive group of child scientists. As Donnelly and Saburi display, liquid-ish felines make delightful, funny subjects for scientific research and picture books alike. Back matter includes a recipe for cornstarch "oobleck" and further information about the science joke at the heart of the book. Ages 4 8.
