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Summary: A very boring read!
Review: B O R I N G ! ! ! I was very disappointed when I read this book. I chose to read this book because it had so many good reviews and awards like the 1964 Newbery Medal Award and was a Notable Childrens Book of 1940-1970. I also chose this book because I love cats. I couldn't believe how boring it was when it had so many high quality awards! The reason I think this book is so dull is because it had no plot or problem to solve. The book is about a boy growing up in New York City, not getting along with his father and owning a pet cat named Cat. BORING! For one thing, the cat is named Cat. It sounds like the author was having a bad day and couldn't think of a better name. If anyone sees the book, It's like This, Cat by Emily Cheny Neville on a shelf somewhere, don't bother reading it, it's really boring. -Rachel Milliken
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Summary: OK BOOK FOR AGES 11 OR 10 AND UNDER
Review: I am 13 and I just finished this book. I got this book when I was about 8 years old but I never read it. It's not the type of book that I enjoy reading(I am a fan of horror books), but a 10 or 11 year old would probably enjoy it. Here's a bit of advice though DON'T DO A BOOKREPORT ON THIS BOOK. I felt that there was not really a main problem. There were small problems here and there, but there wasn't a real problem. That's another reason why I did not really enjoy this book.
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Summary: "CAT" IS DEFINITELY A TIGER OF A BOOK
Review: I first read "Cat" several years ago, and when I was in college, several of my friends and I read it (I passed it around to them), and we all loved it. Neville has sharp, concise writing, and it's a rare children's book that even adults can enjoy. Truly a book that both children and adults can enjoy; shows in detail why growing up can cause tension between kids and their parents!
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Summary: One of the best books I ever read as a young adult
Review: I have to tell you, I originally had to read this as a school requirement in the late 1970's. Since then this book has left such a positive impression and I consistently recommend this to the young adults who express an interest in reading. I am waiting until my children are a few years older to introduce them to the story. The characters are wonderful and it is easy to relate to them. The story moves well as we follow Dave through a year of his life and experience his maturing, somehow influenced by Cat. You can clearly see why this won the Newbery
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Summary: A GREAT New York book
Review: IT'S LIKE THIS CAT is an energetic, enthralling book about Dave growing up in the New York city of the 1960's. The book has a strong energetic prose and is pleasurable to read not just for Dave's coming of age story but for the wonderful sense of place and time that Neville imbues each line with. The chapters with Dave and his girlfriend are especially pleasurable. I love this book and have loved it for many years. A wonderful, wonderful book that speaks to all ages, for all ages!!!
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Summary: It's like this cat
Review: It's like this cat
by emily neville
revies by justin wang
prd 1 The book It's Like This Cat by Emily Neville and is 180 pages long. Has a setting located in various parts of New York like Coney Island and Manhattan, New York during the Summer. It is about a teenager who got a cat to annoy his father because his dad likes dogs. The cat changes his whole life by letting him find new friends and break up with the old. Meeting the cat is a very important event.
The main character is Dave; he goes to middle school and owns a cat. Dave's cat's name is Cat and his best friend is Nick. Cat is also a main character because the whole story is based on him. Cat is a stray tomcat that Dave receives from an elderly friend. Tom is the last main character because everyone is trying to help him because he helped Dave and is homeless. Tom helped get Cat out of a cage in the apartment basement.
The other characters are Nick who is Dave's best friend until cat comes. Then there is Kate, She is an old lady who likes cats and takes care of stray cats and is the one who gives Dave the cat. There is Dave's mother who is a housewife and his father is a lawyer. Hilda is Tom's girlfriend and Mary is Dave's girlfriend. There is also a blonde and a red haired girl. Last there is Ben who is in Dave's Biology class.
There are many parts in the book. At first Kate gives Dave a stray tomcat. Then one day the cat runs away from home Dave has to look for him. The look for Cat leads Dave into a basement in which he finds cat locked up in a cage. At the basement he meets a man that helps him get cat out of the cage.
A few days later he and his friend go to Coney Island. There they meet the blonde, the red-haired girl and Mary. Dave and Nick play with the girls. Soon they decide that they want to go to the movies Dave says that he can't because he needs to take Cat back home. A week later after going to the movies with the girls and Nick, Dave and Nick get into a fight, which causes them to break up because Cat is always taking up Dave's time and nick doesn't like it.
Two days later Dave meets up with Tom and goes to the park with him. Then Cat gets into a catfight and gets wounded very badly. Dave then takes Cat to the vet to get stitches and to get fixed. After cat was good again Dave went to the music store and met Mary. Dave fell in love with her.
During the summer when Dave was on a trip cat jumps out of the car and ruins Dave's trip. Dave has to carry cat home to Manhattan. At Kate's house he meets his mother and father because they canceled the trip.
Afterwards, he makes friends with a boy named Ben and goes to the fish market to buy fish for Cat. The next day Ben catches two salamanders but cat eats one, on Columbus Day Dave and Mary go to Coney Island on a date there they say that they will meet on another day at the golf courts.
Some days later, Kate receives a telegram saying that she inherited one million dollars from her brother who died. Kate said that she didn't want the money every one though she was crazy. Reporters swarmed her house but she shooed them all away.
At the end of the story Tom gets a job and can go to school. Tom says that he is going to marry Hilda. When they are celebrating every one says, "here is to the cat!"
I think that the author wants us to know that one small thing can change ones live like Dave when he got a cat he lost a lot of friends and gained a lot also.
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Summary: It's LIke This, Cat
Review: It's Like This, Cat
By: Emily Cheney Neville
Reviewed by: RBhatt
Period: P.6 This book is about the life of Dave Mitchell. Some of the characters are Dave, his father, Tom, Aunt Kate, Dave's mom, and of course Cat. As soon as Dave meets Cat his life changes. Cat is a stray cat first. Soon he is loved by everyone. Dave is able to help many people too. The end has a happy ending.
I really liked this book. It was very exciting and enjoyable to read. The thing that hooked me to it was my friend told me about it. He described it as a good book and he was true in that judgement. I really liked Cat. He was just a regular cat with a lot attention. " For a stray cat he's sleek and healthy looking".
Cat is really healthy until he gets into fights. Then he starts coming home beat up and half dead. "He curled up on my bed and didn't move all day". For this to stop Cat had to get surgery. Soon eveything was fine and back to normal. just the way Cat liked it.
My favorite part was when Tom freed Cat. He looked like a robber to Dave but wasn't. He picked the lock of the cage and let Cat out. He was in the cellar because someone had dared him to get something from the cellar . Thinking it was easy he did it. Tom soon became Dave's friend.
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Summary: It's LIke This, Cat
Review: It's Like This, Cat
By: Emily Cheney Neville
Reviewed by: RBhatt
Period: P.6 This book is about the life of Dave Mitchell. Some of the characters are Dave, his father, Tom, Aunt Kate, Dave's mom, and of course Cat. As soon as Dave meets Cat his life changes. Cat is a stray cat first. Soon he is loved by everyone. Dave is able to help many people too. The end has a happy ending.
I really liked this book. It was very exciting and enjoyable to read. The thing that hooked me to it was my friend told me about it. He described it as a good book and he was true in that judgement. I really liked Cat. He was just a regular cat with a lot attention. " For a stray cat he's sleek and healthy looking".
Cat is really healthy until he gets into fights. Then he starts coming home beat up and half dead. "He curled up on my bed and didn't move all day". For this to stop Cat had to get surgery. Soon eveything was fine and back to normal. just the way Cat liked it.
My favorite part was when Tom freed Cat. He looked like a robber to Dave but wasn't. He picked the lock of the cage and let Cat out. He was in the cellar because someone had dared him to get something from the cellar . Thinking it was easy he did it. Tom soon became Dave's friend.
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Summary: Someone tell me, how does this book have so few reviews?
Review: IT'S NOTHING SHORT OF A CLASSIC. Personally, I find this book a better study in early 60s NYC youth alienation and reconciliation than Catcher in the Rye, and that is no joke. This book is fabulous. (...)
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Summary: Critical Reflection of It's Like This, Cat.
Review: Neville, Emily. It's Like This, Cat. Illus. Emily Weiss. New York: Harper and Row. 1963. Markman, Lisa Hermine. "Child's Work Is Child's Play: The Value of George MacDonald's Diamond." Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 24.3 (1999)119-129. Dave is the main character of the book, It's Like This, Cat. He gets a cat from his friend Aunt Kate. He quickly names his new pet "Cat." Throughout the story, Cat helps take a part in Dave's new found relationships with friends and family. Dave and Cat go on new adventures together and meet interesting people. This Newbery Medal winner was really fun to read. The descriptions of the cats are the best that I have seen in a children's book. In, It's Like This, Cat, Neville successfully awakens the reader's visual senses. The description of fine details of cat places the reader inside the book and allows him or her to visualize the vivid images on each page. Neville captures the sleek movements of the cats in this book, from the twitch of the tail to the lazy play of the eyes. For cat lovers, it is a joy to see how these fury friends are captured in their playful and lazy manners. With this description, Neville creates a fascinating world that is easy for the reader to enter. Once inside, the reader is also able to get an up-close view of the special bond between Dave and Cat. Cat soon becomes Dave's best friend and they begin to do everything together. With the visual senses awakened, one can feel that they are seeing inside the story, and capture a deeper meaning than one would have if the images were not so life-like. These life-like images make this novel hard to put down. One thing that I feel that Neville really captures in this book is the real innocence of child's play. In the article, "Child's Work is Child's Play: The Value of George MacDonald's Diamond," Makman states that shortly before the time period that this book was written, "...the idea of an economically worthless but emotionally priceless child emerged. A carefree, labor-free childhood came to be understood as a fundamental right of all children regardless of their social class; simultaneously, childhood became an increasingly popular locus for fantasies about leisure and freedom from adults" (119). The reader gets a sense of this carefree, labor-free child in Neville's work. She depicts Dave as worry free child who is free to explore the world with his favorite toy of all, his cat. Dave does not have to deal with the struggle of a job but instead has supportive parents and a warm home where he is nurtured and loved. The structure and description take the reader on a great adventure with funny surprises, and a happy ending. I would recommend this book to any age reader who is looking to escape life's troubles and enjoy the adventures of a boy and his cat.
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