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How to Teach Your Cat a Trick
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780735270619
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 52
  • RRP: $38.00

How to Teach Your Cat a Trick

in Five Easy Steps

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27 Sept 2022
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17 Jan 2023
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In this hilarious and clever follow-up to How to Give Your Cat a Bath, a boy, a dog and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to learn a trick. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Interrupting Chicken.

In this hilarious and clever follow-up to How to Give Your Cat a Bath, a boy, a dog and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to learn a trick. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Interrupting Chicken.

Step one: Decide on a trick
Step two: Get some treats ready
Step three: Hold the treat in your hand and ask your cat to do the trick
Step four: Watch your cat do exactly what you asked him to do
Step five: Reward your cat for doing the trick
 
Simple, right?
 
This spoof on an instruction manual features an increasingly bewildered human, a nonchalant cat, a very good dog and a know-it-all narrator . . . who really doesn't know it all. How DO you teach a cat a trick? Read on to find out!
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780735270619
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 52
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Nicola Winstanley

NICOLA WINSTANLEY has always believed in the power of stories to bring comfort. She is the author of The Pirate's Bed, A Bedtime Yarn, Cinnamon Baby, which won an honor prize for the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award and was shortlisted for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, How to Teach Your Cat a Trick and How to Give Your Cat a Bath, which was a finalist for the Govenor General's Literary Award. Nicola lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her family, a huge cat, and a tiny dog.
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Also by Nicola Winstanley

How to Give Your Cat a Bath
A Bedtime Yarn
The Pirate's Bed
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Praise for How to Teach Your Cat a Trick

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps:

  • Nominee, Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature – Illustration 2019
  • Featured in School Library Journal's top 2019 "Funny Picture Books" list
  • One of CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2019
  • One of the Ontario Library Association’s 2019 Top Ten Titles
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    "Adorably frustrating . . . will have young readers slapping their foreheads in exasperation, but will reward them with a sweet, funny ending . . . " —New York Times

    "This laugh-out-loud picture book can serve as a beginning reader. . . . The inevitable ending will delight both children and adults and this title will be requested over and over." —STARRED REVIEW, Booklist