The City Kittens and the Old House Cat by Mrs. D.

From the author:

“Mom’s Choice Award Winner 

Readers’ Favorite International Award Winner

Age 6-8

This story revolves around Christmastime and a family who once adopted a lost kitten, naming it Nyda. Nyda has now grown old and has settled into a calm, uneventful life with her new family-until the day before Christmas, when the family’s older daughter brings two playful kittens, Mickey and Jack, home for the holidays. The two kittens from the big city are a change for the family, and for Nyda. The old cat likes her settled life and is not happy about the new arrivals. She’s also very protective of her belongings. The city kittens annoy her, and the old cat grumbles about the new additions to the family- until she hears a story one night that makes her feel bad. The kittens aren’t the soft or spoiled brats she had thought they were … Mrs. D. (Olga D’Agostino), an award-winning author, grew up on a farm in a village nestled in the beautiful Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. Surrounded by nature and the real world, without TV and toys, she learned to read at a very early age, and books then became a huge part ofher life. As a child, she used to create her own imaginary world populated with characters from books she read. She finished business college in Lviv, Ukraine. To escape the harsh reality of life in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States in 1992 with her two small daughters. For many years she worked in her own business. She is a member of SCBWI, speaks several languages fluently, and loves reading, writing, gardening, and traveling.”

Review:

Just like other books I have read from this author, The City Kittens and the Old House Cat was a heartwarming story, beautifully written and illustrated. Truly a family oriented book that inspires both children and adults alike. I clearly see why this book has won so many literary awards and well justified. Readers are taken into the mind of a cat’s point of view about the weather, house family members, holidays, and of course new kittens.

The old house cat was set in her ways, preferring no new kittens brought into the home. After finding out how they were rescued, the condition they had been in, the old house cat had a change of heart – all at the most special time of the year – Christmas!

Truly this story isn’t just for Christmas as it is fitting year round. The dynamics are written perfectly and one feels the emotions of the cats which, of course the old cat was territorial as cats are, yet in the end the story ties together and acceptance happens. Great for mid age primer and rate it as a five star book.

I’m curious (sorta like squirrels are) and I would like to know how many of you go to your countries copy right office and register each book you write? I ask as I am involved in a copyright nightmare that just doesn’t end. My screenplays were copyrighted by me through the USA copyright office. 

For those of you who don’t know, our book, Suzy Has A Secret was published in March of 2016. In September of 2017 another author published the same kind of book, Same title (we have no problem with that), same topic (we have no problem with that) they used much of our wordage for their book. It has become a nightmare over the last few days. Amazon has suppressed both softcover and KDP did the same. Due to this issue, a few weeks ago I reported them to Amazon for violation of our content published a year and a half before they published theirs. 

I don’t know what is going to happen now, but I did just now copyright four books this evening with the USA copyright office. I’m so tired of the other party doing this to me – out of malice. The four books I submitted for copyright this evening are When Angels Fly, Suzy Has A Secret, The Big Cheese Festival, and Shadow and Friends Celebrate Ellsworth, KS 150th Birthday. 

Was I just too late in doing this???? I am despondent over this issue. I need feedback please. Thank you.

Seventy-Five Greatest Squirrel Memes

Our comical meme picture book features our backyard fox squirrels in comical situations that both older children and adults can relate. Our backyard wildlife inspired the creation of each meme, and we used old toys and some old show stills to create them. The eBook is $1.99 (the lowest we could go due to full color graphics) and we understand not everyone likes to see these funny rodents. For that want to have 75 jokes on hand, this is the book for you! 

#RodentRoadAdventures #funny #memes #RRBC #IAN1 #RPBP #squirrels #jokes #kids #adults 

I have read this children’s book geared towards ages 7 – 12 and my review follows the author’s book blurb found on Amazon.

“James and Mandy head to the pumpkin patch with their friendly dog, Rosco, one sunny autumn day, to choose their pumpkins for Halloween. It’s Rosco’s first time at a farm, and he manages to create a little chaos. But when the brother and sister pair find that two bullies are scaring other kids deep inside the corn maze, will Rosco shape up and help out? Join the kids and their rascally dog in this wholesome family adventure, a wonderful autumn read for kids.”

This is a cute and adventurous story for children and revolves around an Autumn/Halloween scenario. There is a nuclear family unit consisting of two parents, one boy and one girl child, and their funny and lovable dog, Rosco. Rosco tries to be good but he does get into hi-jinks at times. As a child reads it is easy to envision being inside a corn maze, and doing all the things they partake in. Understandably the Halloween theme isn’t for everyone, but this is an enjoyable fun read. The flow is easy and truly the grammar and punctuation is perfect. The illustrations are cute but they are so small that I skipped over them. I think they should be bigger to make a better impact on the reader. Nevertheless, five stars!