How to Teach Your Cat a Trick
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780735270619
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 52
  • RRP: $29.99

How to Teach Your Cat a Trick

in Five Easy Steps

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In this hilarious and clever follow-up to How to Give Your Cat a Bath, a boy, a dog and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to learn a trick. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Interrupting Chicken.

In this hilarious and clever follow-up to How to Give Your Cat a Bath, a boy, a dog and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to learn a trick. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Interrupting Chicken.

Step one: Decide on a trick
Step two: Get some treats ready
Step three: Hold the treat in your hand and ask your cat to do the trick
Step four: Watch your cat do exactly what you asked him to do
Step five: Reward your cat for doing the trick
 
Simple, right?
 
This spoof on an instruction manual features an increasingly bewildered human, a nonchalant cat, a very good dog and a know-it-all narrator . . . who really doesn't know it all. How DO you teach a cat a trick? Read on to find out!
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780735270619
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 52
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for How to Teach Your Cat a Trick

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps:

  • Nominee, Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature – Illustration 2019
  • Featured in School Library Journal's top 2019 "Funny Picture Books" list
  • One of CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2019
  • One of the Ontario Library Association’s 2019 Top Ten Titles
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    "Adorably frustrating . . . will have young readers slapping their foreheads in exasperation, but will reward them with a sweet, funny ending . . . " —New York Times

    "This laugh-out-loud picture book can serve as a beginning reader. . . . The inevitable ending will delight both children and adults and this title will be requested over and over." —STARRED REVIEW, Booklist