I adopted a cat 19 years ago, Pixel. I went to our local animal shelter and picked out the cutest little orange furball. This was the second time I adopted a cat there and a few months later I adopted another.
I have never really liked the idea of getting an animal from pet store, unless it’s a fish or hamster. There are so many cats and dogs available for adoption, it only makes sense to me to get one form the local shelter.
There a book available called Mr Bo finds a new Home and a new Name. It’s a great little book for children. It’s told in the cat’s point of view. As soon I recieved it, my daughter said read it, read it. She and I throughlly enjoyed this.
Mr Bo is a cat in an animal shelter waiting and waiting for the right person to come in and adopt him. He sees a perfect man and makes sure to give this man all of his attention. He meows just right and makes sure to really put on a good show. When the man leaves to think about making the right choice, adopting a cat, Mr Bo is disappointed. Then the man comes back to get Mr Bo and take hime to his new home.
We will be adoptng another cat or maybe a dog in the next few months, as I had to put down my little Pixel last weekend. This is a great book for children. It teaches the importance of animal adoption.
This is a true story and a picture of Mr Bo is above.
Here’s what a licensed professional counselor wrote about this heartwarming book, written for children in the early elementary years:
“Parents and teachers will fall in love with Timothy Battle’s main character, Mr. Bo, especially for the critical life skills he models for children — maintaining perseverance, overcoming rejection, bolstering self when dejected, and the transitory nature of defeat.”
The book is widely available, sold at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other stores.
I have a copy to giveaway to one Mommy Has to Work reader. To enter leave a comment telling me why you want to win.
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I would like to win this for my granddaughter. She loves cats and loves to go to Animal Shelters to look at them even though she knows she can't get any more! (She has two!)
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I would like to win this for my daughter. She loves her two cats she adopted
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As a lifelong cat lover & brought my three year old grandson on his first fund raising drive this past Fall, we raised $250.00 for our local shelter. This tradition of raising money for our shelter will be one we will do EVERY year. It's important to me that my grandchildren understand animal shelters. I want to win so I can read to them a cats point of view being in that shelter!
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I would love to win this for my 5 year old granddaughter. She is just learning to read and I think this would be a book that would encourage her to want to read it since she loves animals.
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I would like to win because I think this would be a great book to share with my students and also because I am a huge animall lover.
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My daughter loves cats, a new book would be a special treat
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I would like to win we just love pets and our cat is an adoptee too
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Oh.. Its sad that I can't participate in this gveaway. I live overseas. But I'm definitely going to be checking this book out at Amazon, am sure my toddler will love it!
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I collect children's books and this one looks like it would be a lot of fun to read.
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Sounds like a sweet book my kids would enjoy..they adore animals! tylerpants(at)gmail.com
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I want to win this book to read to my son and also because we had a cat (identical to the one on the cover) who died the day I gave birth to our child we had him for 20 years.
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