Cats mean comfort, affection, purring, inexpressible tenderness and tenderness. And although cats are not always happy with children - they are too noisy and impetuous - the children themselves, as a rule, are delighted with them.
Petting and squeezing, playing and feeding, observing the habits of furry creatures - all this causes a storm of delight among the children. And how interesting it is to read books about cats!... After all, there your favorite pets come to life, adventures and amazing plot twists await them.
This selection contains the best books about cats for preschoolers. Happy reading!
Melanie Watt "Chester's Masterpiece"
Chester is a narcissistic cat. He believes that everyone should look only at him. Melanie Watt, his owner, is trying to write a book about a mouse, but Chester takes a red felt-tip pen and makes his own adjustments. Or rather, he believes that the mistress is only hindering him; even without her, he would have written an outstanding masterpiece.
An obnoxious but charming cat paints and edits the pages of a book. Now Melanie will just have to write a book about Chester! True, for his pranks at the end of the story, Chester will be depicted in a ridiculous clown costume.
The book unobtrusively teaches readers to listen to constructive criticism. By the way, the previous two books – “Chester” and “Chester the Superstar” – were also a great success among readers.
Recommended age: from 5 years.
The story of the cat and the mouse
In house number five on Kosmonavtov Street, on the third floor in apartment one hundred and twenty-four, there lived a cat named Belka.
Her owners loved her very much, spoiled her in every possible way, and bought her new toys. But the little girl Tanya loved Belka most of all. She even took the cat with her to bed at night. It used to be that Tanya would have a terrible dream, she would get up, grab Belka with both arms and pull her with her. And the cat is only happy about it.
But one day Tanya and her mother went to the pet store and brought home... a mouse. Small, white, in a cage with a wheel. When Squirrel saw that mouse, she almost fainted.
Where have you seen mice live in complete contentment in a house? They are supposed to be caught with mousetraps or cats.
And this mouse also turned out to be impudent. When everyone in the house falls asleep, the lights are turned off, Belka also falls asleep, the mouse slowly gets out of the cage and begins to roam around the rooms, putting things in order. One day Belka caught her in the kitchen in front of a bag of semolina. I tried to chase her, but didn’t have time. The mouse climbed onto the wall, along the wall to the ceiling, and along the ceiling back into Tanya’s bedroom and into his cage. She closed the door and sat there, not moving. It seems like she wasn’t acting out at all.
In fairness
Then Squirrel decided to catch this mouse and eat it. No mouse, no problem. She waited until the night was dark and moonless and pretended to be asleep. The mouse only stuck its sharp nose into the kitchen, only got close to the bag of cereal, and then Squirrel grabbed it.
She held it between her paws and was about to swallow it. She has already revealed her sharp teeth. And as soon as I looked at this tiny animal, all my appetite instantly disappeared. Belka felt sorry for her mistress. How will she grieve for the mouse, poor thing? And she released the rodent. So, either the mouse realized its mistake, or it was scared to death, but since then it hasn’t pulled any more tricks. She sat quietly in the cage and didn’t do anything around the house.
Fairy tale poems about a mouse and a cat
There is a magical place in our kitchen, near the stove. A door with a tiny lock, and behind it a house of mice.
Exactly at midnight, from behind the stove, Grabbing candles for light, the mice in a friendly crowd set off on a robbery.
They eat cereals and porridge, drink kvass from a bowl, refresh themselves with potatoes, and juggle peas.
Quietly, quietly, don't make any noise, they tell the cat to sleep. When he wakes up, that’s the problem! Then she will eat the mice.
But Murka doesn’t hear yet, Sleeping, the shiny jacket. Drinking milk at night, satisfying your hunger.
Well-fed people always want to sleep, They yawn all day long. Tolley is a matter on an empty stomach. Catch mice for a nickel.
In the meantime, they are roaming around, stealing food here and there, so that their pantries are all driven up to the ceilings.
You are the owners of animals, willing mouse-catchers, listen to my advice - Don’t give them cutlets.
Do not serve butter, cheese, pies or bread from the tandoor. Do not give milk or raw cottage cheese.
And then your little cats, in an unusual aerobatics, will announce a battle to the mice, revealing their strong-willed character.
The tale of the mouse who ate cats
It was around New Year's. The mice gathered behind the baseboard to have a meal. They put little by little from each tail into the general pile: some a dry piece of cheese, some the skin of a sausage, another dumpling, barely bitten, a crust of bread - in general, the table was set for the holiday.
And as soon as they ate, they began to have fun. There are different stories to tell. Some will remember a joke, some will remember an exciting, even scary story about a mousetrap. There was one fat old mouse sitting in the corner. She sat quietly, and then just say: “Have you heard the story about the mouse that ate cats?” A tragic story, I must say, but a true one.
The other mice, of course, didn’t hear anything like that. And they began to ask her to tell.
Creepy story
There is nothing to do, the old mouse yawned and began her story: “A long time ago, when my mother was still a little mouse, there were stray cats in their area, apparently or invisible.” The mice were completely dead from them. These cats began to pester ordinary households. Where there was one cat in the house, now there are three, four, or even more. And these cats began to mercilessly destroy our brother. It got so bad that there were only a handful of mice left for the entire village.
So, probably, our breed would have completely died out. If, out of nowhere, a large, even huge, unprecedented mouse had not appeared. She came at night and ate all the cats that came in her way. And soon there was not a single cat left in the area.
- And then what happened to this mouse? - asked one little mouse with a shaking tail.
“Nobody knows that,” answered the old mouse. “They say that she is hiding and waiting in the wings, when she can feast on cat meat again.”
Massacre
When the mice heard the story, they started making noise. They waved their fists and said that this is what they need with a mustache and a tail. And they got so excited that they decided to go to war against the cat.
- Wow, we’ll ask him now! Wow, he'll see us! Let's not let him hurt us anymore!
They just came out of the hole, and then suddenly there was a cat. Eyes - staring, teeth - clicking. The mice rushed into the scattered space. Only the tails flickered in the corners.
A quiet tale about a cat and a mouse
On a starry night, on a moonlit night, on a thin field path, a little mouse walked cautiously, quietly walked to his home.
And a gray-brown cat quietly trudged towards him, and the mouse saw him, hiding behind a snag.
Eka, he thinks, good luck. I'll refresh myself for a night's sleep. It's painful to wander on an empty stomach.
But the mouse was not a mistake, having recognized the spirit of the cat, he quietly hid behind a hummock, gathering all his will in his tail.
The pitch-black night has come, Not a single star is visible. Quiet in the field, quiet in the sky Grace, as it is - peace.
Here they sit, hiding, And in the pitch silence You can hear an owl flying, Yes, over the field, under the moon.
It's a joke, whoever runs first across the field will give himself away in the night. My heart is beating wildly...
The cat doesn’t want to wait, And the little mouse is trembling all over, Eh, now he should go to his mother - the mouse, She will surround her with care.
But under no circumstances should he run, no, no, no. Otherwise, that's it, I fell for the mouse pate.
Quietly the night passes. The mouse is sleeping, the cat is sleeping. It’s a joke, whoever reveals his dream first will snore...
Cats in science fiction and fantasy
Cats are also present in science fiction. The most famous are the warrior cats in Andre Norton’s book series.
Examples of her books:
- "Star Ko'ot";
- "All cats are grey";
- "Cat Gate";
- "Star Ko'ots and Winged Wars" and others.
Andre wrote the book series “The Sign of the Cat, Year of the Rat” inspired by the works of Arizona artist Karen Kuykendall, most of whose works are dedicated to cats.
She is famous for her special "CatPeople" Tarot cards, which come with a 192-page description of the fictional country of the Outer Regions and its people.
The heroes of the novel - sand cats - are the worst enemies of humanity, but young Hinkkel, expelled from his own family because of his refusal to devote his life to the military path, finds new relatives among them.
In the story “The Cat's Pajamas” by Ray Bradbury, thanks to a little kitten, a fateful meeting between two people occurs. He and She take a long time to decide which of them will take the baby home. Cat pajamas helped solve the problem.
In 2004, Russian science fiction writers published an anthology of the story “Man is a Cat to Man,” which included works by Lukyanenko, Zorich, Kaganov and Divov. The famous Russian science fiction writer Kir Bulychev also has a famous collection of stories “A Mind for a Cat”.
Read the tale about the cat Shura and the mouse Nyura
Once upon a time there lived a mouse named Nyura in my grandmother's lower kitchen. She wasn’t especially willful, she didn’t spoil the food, so grandma didn’t touch her. Let him live.
And upstairs in the house lived the cat Shura. She was strict and vigilantly watched over the house so that not a single mouse was found. And she never went down to the lower kitchen. There was a vat of sourdough at my grandmother’s place, and Shura was about to drink from it one day and fell into the sourdough. Her grandmother scolded her very painfully afterwards.
One day Shura was sitting by the hatch into the underground, where the lower kitchenette was, and saw a picture: a mouse was walking and wandering around the kitchen, slowly, like a businessman. He’ll go up to the stove and see what’s cooking there, he’ll go up to the cabinets and check everything around him, he’ll go up to the leaven in the vat and stick his nose in there.
The cat Shura became furious, her fur stood on end. She looks with her eyes, but can’t do anything. The fear was deeply ingrained in her. Then she decided to use a trick. She got a thread somewhere, tied a piece of cheese to one end of it and lowered it into the underground.
Nyura noticed the cheese, sharpened her teeth, but she wanted to grab it like cheese - she hopped and moved away. The mouse is behind him. And the cheese for the ladder - skok-skok-skok. The mouse ran after him. She was almost getting what she wanted, when suddenly the cheese slipped out through the hatch into the house.
Then the mouse realized that something was wrong. She hid between the steps and sat and waited. Not a minute had passed before the cat appeared. But no matter how much she looked out, no matter how much she lowered her muzzle into the underground, she could not understand why her prey had been lost.
Mouse Mind
It was then that the mouse realized that the cat was afraid of the underground. And she began to tease her in every possible way. As soon as he notices that Shura is sitting on the edge of the hatch, he will immediately come out of his hiding place and walk back and forth in the lower kitchen, like a housewife. And she became so arrogant that she completely forgot about her agreement with her grandmother.
And the grandmother, when she saw that the mouse was completely insolent, put a mousetrap in the kitchen and caught it.
That's the whole story for you. It’s not for nothing that they say that the jug was proud until it broke.
The Tale of the Cat and the Mouse Nathanya
Nafanya started up in the same house. Well, she was amazing! For example, everyone wakes up in the morning and looks at the nut pie on the table in the evening, but now it’s not there. Only crumbs remained. They marvel - who did this outrage? And dad says: “Probably Nafanya.”
The cat Dasha heard about this and thought: “Wow! What kind of Nafanya is this? Is it really a mouse?
The next day, someone defaced all the wallpaper in the room. With orange, blue and red colors. The adults, when they saw it, almost fainted. Dad says: “Well, who did it?”
There’s a little boy, Vanechka, who quietly answers: “Nafanya...
Then dad says: “That’s how we got Nafanya!” He eats pies and paints wallpaper. Will there be anything next?
And the cat Dashka was already completely scared. What kind of mouse is this, incredibly literate?
A few more days passed and by morning the parents found a high chair in the kitchen, placed on the top shelf. And on the top shelf there was a whole box of chocolates. So now there is not a single piece of candy left in the box.
Dad says: “Well, our Nafanya is gone!” We probably need to take action. And the cat Dashka thinks to himself: “It’s very lucky that we got this mouse! You can get into trouble and blame everything on her.” Dasha sneaked into the kitchen in the evening, opened the refrigerator, took out a hefty piece of cheese and ate it.
The next morning, when the loss was discovered, mom and dad clasped their hands: “Dasha!” Yes, where have you seen cats roaming refrigerators? - and punished the cat.
She sits poor in the closet and cannot understand anything. Why is it that, like eating candy and pies, it means Nafanya, but like eating cheese, it’s Dasha’s fault?
The Tale of the Cat and the Mouse
Once a cat caught a mouse. He opened his mouth, just about to eat. And she tells him:
- Don't eat me, kitty! Look, I'll be useful to you. - Yes, what good are you? - the cat grins. - You look so small. You'll get hit and there won't be a wet place left. “Don’t eat me,” the mouse babbles on and on. - You'll see, it will be good for me too. The cat thought, “okay, you won’t be satisfied with one mouse” and let her go in peace.
Now, time is passing. The owner got angry with the cat because he ate all the sour cream and decided to kick him out of the house. The cat was completely sad. He thinks “I’ll disappear on the street.” He sits and sheds tears. Then, out of nowhere, a mouse crawls out: “What are you crying about, little cat?”
He told her his misfortune. And she tells him: “Don’t cry.” You spared me, so I will do good to you.
In the evening the owner is sitting drinking tea with bagels, and suddenly he sees a mouse walking across the table right before his eyes. He approaches the bagels, takes one and begins to gnaw.
From such impudence, the owner almost turned green. - Cat! - he shouts. - Well, catch me this impudent one! And the cat is happy to try. He flew up like a bullet and caught the mouse. And he ate it. Make-believe. And when the owner turned away, he released her. And from that day on, the cat and mouse became best friends.
