Review by Booklist Review
Oh, the injustice! Poor Kitty is minding his own business, being a good boy, when an escaped tiger comes to the house and makes a terrible mess. Kitty's owner, Lily, originally wanted a dog, but she is happy with her adorable and seemingly no-fuss cat. So she is not at all amused by the work her naughty kitty is creating for her. But readers will be much amused as the story plays out like a scene from a British pantomime. The signs are everywhere for Lily to see the truth; the escaped tiger is headline news in the paper lying on the kitchen table, as well as on the television. Not to mention the poorly camouflaged tiger, which Lily would see if she simply turned around and looked behind her. This companion to Silly Doggy! (2012) continues the idea of mistaken identity. Kitty's passivity in the face of blame is as amusing as the havoc the tiger is wreaking in his name. A punch line of an ending indicates that Kitty might yet have some explaining to do.--Dean, Kara Copyright 2014 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Animal-loving Lily returns in this rambunctious follow-up to 2012's Silly Doggy!, in which she mistook an escaped bear for a much-wanted dog. This story also involves a zoo escapee-a tiger-but Stower doesn't rehash the plot: Lily is oblivious to the animal's presence. As she leaves her new pet Kitty alone to eat, readers see an enormous tiger skulking in through the kitchen door. The animal raids the fridge and makes a colossal mess while Kitty looks on in alarm. Charm and humor radiate from Stower's full-page and spot art, revealing the tiger just out of Lily's sight while she chastises Kitty for a string of debacles. "I still don't know how you stole all my sausages!" complains Lily in one scene, wagging her finger at Kitty with one hand while inadvertently feeding the slavering tiger behind her back with the other. The author executes the reader-knows-more-than-protagonist conceit with style, and Lily's failure to notice that her backyard is filled with even more zoo runaways offers a hint of misadventures still to come. Ages 3-5. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-In this follow-up to Silly Doggy (Orchard, 2011), Lily's mom gives her skeptical daughter a fluffy little kitten instead of a long-hoped-for pooch. The child admonishes her new pet to behave and not make a mess, but each time she leaves kitty alone, she discovers chaotic mayhem upon her return. What Lily doesn't know but readers can clearly see is that the havoc is being wreaked by a huge tiger that hides whenever Lily comes near (the endpapers alert them to his escape from the zoo). The commotion appears to abate when the tiger follows a neighbor's dog, sporting a tiger-striped sweater. The book ends with a promise of more misadventures as a zoofull of animals cavorts, unbeknownst to Lily, in her backyard. The cartoon watercolor-and-ink illustrations use a combination of spreads and small vignettes to capture both the disasters caused by the tiger and the tenderness of Lily's acceptance of her kitten. Children will enjoy the jokes and spotting the tiger lurking, while adults will appreciate the goofy endpaper news items that reveal more about the story beyond its ending.-Marge Loch-Wouters, La Crosse Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
In this keenly plotted follow-up to Silly Doggy!, Lily blames her new kitten for domestic misdeeds done by a tiger that has escaped from the zoo. Only when Lily (mistakenly) believes that Kitty has scared off a yapping dog is the kitten back in her good graces. Dignified cartoonish illustrations show a clueless, exasperated Lily and one majorly oppressed kitten. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Is Lily's soft, tiny kitty wreaking havoc, or might there be an escaped tiger lurking about?Lily's mother finds dogs messy and troublesome, but she's happy to get a kitten. The small, wide-eyed fluffball flops backward for Lily to tickle his tummy, the very picture of innocence. But within moments of his arrival, the house is "a catastrophe." The refrigerator shelves are broken, silverware drawers teeter precariously, and the kitchen's covered in broken eggs and gnawed meat. "Naughty Kitty!" says Lily, but readers know better. Way back on the opening endpaper, a newspaper headline trumpets, "WILD ANIMAL LOOSE." Details? "It was spotted this morning.It was NOT spotted,' claims Miss Norah Muffin.It was most definitely striped.' " Those stripes appear near Lily's garden gate and under the kitchen window. The tiger sneaks in and out, wrecking the house under Lily's nose but behind her back, stealing a sausage right from her fork while she eyes the kitten, providing readers the uproarious delight of understanding the situation while Lily doesn't. Emotionally counterbalancing the destruction, Stower's illustrations feature pleasant colors with mild, watery shadings and steady outlines; Lily has round cheeks, and even the tiger's stripes aren't too dramatically dark. Two surprises keep giggles comingand don't skip the closing endpaper.Funny enough to create sincere longings for a hapless house cat and its large rampaging cousin. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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