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Can You Find Ways to Make Reading Fun for Kids?

August 19, 2021October 17, 2018 by Fran Kelso
carving brown cat, black ears, tail

Reading is a skill that is essential these days, and kids need to learn to read well.  If you can encourage a love of reading in your children, you will be doing them a great favor. Learning to read accurately and well, while understanding what you read is crucial for school success.  You might not … Read more

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A FAMOUS CAT

Remember Walt Disney’s Aristocats from 1970?  A Parisian cat named Duchess was her model.  The cat gets abducted to French countryside.  After many adventures, she escapes with the help of an alley cat named O’Malley.

—Joan Moore, A Cat’s Companion

 

LEGEND OF THE PUSSYWILLOW

Have you ever heard this legend?  Once, some nasty person threw a bunch of kittens in the river to drown.  The mother cat became so agitated that the willow trees on the river bank felt sorry for her.  So, they trailed their branches in the water so the kittens could hang on, and thus saved the babies.  Since then, each spring the willow wears soft, grey buds that remind us of kittens.  We now call these trees “pussy willows.”

—Joan Moore, A Cat’s CompanionTwo friend cats

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