Reviewed by
Dianne Bates
Doodle Cat
is a big squarish solid red creature featured on every page dancing, playing
drums and showing its love of sun-baking, and hugging trees and its friends. Most
pages show lots of white space but now and again there are colours other than
red, for instance where there are many examples of things Doodle Cat loves,
such as fish-shaped biscuits, toy mice, birds and a 20-metre ball of string.
Most pages there is a picture of the cat with a simple one sentence text – ‘I
love lentils’, ‘I love baths.’
The penultimate double-paged spread shows dozens
of other cats of all different sizes, shapes and colours. In the final
spread are lots of facts that pertain to certain sections of the book. For
example, Doodle Cat has said ‘I love farts’ so that there is a paragraph which
tells the reader that ‘the average person produces a litre of farts a day.’ There are also facts
about fractals (a never ending pattern that looks the same at any size), trees,
friends, the ocean, stars, difference and me (‘I love me’). The last sentence
invites the reader to start a list of all things ‘you like best about
yourself.’
What this
reader liked most about this book were the double-page red-coloured fly pages
with a pattern of dozens of cats in all kinds of poses.
The
readership of this book is most likely anyone who adores cats, but it’s appeal
other than that would seem to be limited.
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