Pete Cat Love White Shoes Reviews Summary

Repetition and Memorability

Pros:

• "The repetition is great to teach retelling, cause and effect, and making predictions to new readers and the song is fun."
• "Repetitive words help kids learn to speak!"
• "The kids love singing the shoes song and repeating the lines along with me as I read."
• "It's a great learning to read book - it's got your sight words, your easy to pronounce words."
• "The story is very lyrical and almost sounds like a rap (in fact, there's a youtube video of the story with a song from the author)."
• "It also teaches colors and the repetition is great for little ones learning."
• "Easy to memorize, they join in the reading!"

Cons:

• "The story is repetitive without being too annoying."
• "It's not very interesting and the repetition would bore me if I had to read it more than once."
• "There's not much to it, and what is there is very repetitive."

Book Quality and Design

Pros:

• "The illustrations are child-friendly, colorful, and eye-catching."
• "The pictures are great, the story is lovely and it's a good way to reinforce knowledge of some colours."
• "Excellent illustrations as well."
• "The illustrations are vivid and colorful."
• "The illustration are quite charming."
• "Also the colors are vibrant, the moral of the story is deep but still portrayed in a way that children can understand."
• "Great illustrations and perfect for beginning readers."

Cons:

• "Book was listed used in Very Good condition and arrived creased and obviously had liquid spilled on it."
• "I was really excited for it to arrive and was mildly disappointed to see the top edge of the book were a bit scuffed and broken off."
• "The first book arrived with the jacket completely ripped and folded, but Amazon replaced it for me right away."

Entertainment and Engagement

Pros:

• "Pete the Cat is a staple in my pre-K classes."
• "It’s a fun to read and sing along to."
• "We love singing along and the reputative nature of the book."
• "You know it is a great story when your three year old granddaughter can tell you the story and sing the songs before you turn the page."
• "Pete The Cat, is the kind of character that most children want in their lives."
• "The book AND the song together…perfection."
• "Pete is the grooviest character and the moral of the story is awesome."