Kitty's Magic 1: Misty the Scared Kitten

by Ella Moonheart

Overview

Kitty always wanted a cat of her very own, even though they make her eyes puffy and her nose tickly. When her best friend's new kitten, Misty, causes Kitty to have a sneezing fit in the middle of their sleepover, something magical happens—Kitty turns into a cat!

Being cat and human means that Kitty can have the best of both worlds! But with this special power comes a new role: Kitty becomes the Guardian of the local cats' Cat Council and must help them find the purrfect solution to their feline problems. Kitty's first challenge comes when Misty is too scared to go outside because of trouble in the neighborhood. Can Kitty's magic help Misty to be braver?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681193854
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	02/20/2018
Series:	Kitty's Magic , #1
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	87,246
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Ella Moonheart grew up telling fun and exciting stories to anyone who would listen. Now that she's an author, she's thrilled to be able to tell stories to so many more children with her Kitty's Magic books. Ella loves animals, but cats most of all! She wishes she could turn into one just like Kitty, but she's happy to just play with her pet cat, Nibbles—when she's not writing her books, of course!

Editorial Reviews

2017-10-28
The first in a new chapter book series introduces a girl who can turn into a cat.Koemi "Kitty" Kimura loves cats more than anything (hence her nickname), but she's allergic to them. When the Japanese-American girl's white best friend, Jenny, invites Kitty to see her new pale gray kitten, Misty, Kitty's Japanese-born grandmother allows her to go as long as she wears a family heirloom: a small charm imprinted with a picture of a cat. Fleetingly, Kitty wonders how a pendant can stop her from sneezing but quickly puts the thought aside for a sleepover at Jenny's. Later, Kitty has an uncontrollable sneezing fit that turns her into a cat. Fortunately, Misty is there to welcome Kitty to the world of cats. On their first midnight adventure, they run into two bullies: a pair of twin Persians named Fang and Claws. Kitty and Misty report the troublemakers to the local Cat Council, the keepers of feline order. At her first council meeting, Kitty discovers she's the latest in an ancient matrilineal line of Cat Guardians, humans who can turn into cats, and her first task is to stop the bullies. Kitty's immediate family consists of her grandmother and her parents, who own a Japanese imports shop. The artwork, reminiscent of Mary Blair's, features rosy, cozy images of romping kittens, an apt complement to the self-consciously breathless text.This saccharine, exclamation-filled story is purr-fect for young cat fans but not many others. (Fantasy. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews