At a young age, children are often unable to put themselves in another person’s position and imagine what they would feel, think, or do if you were in that situation. Teaching small children about perspective can be tough. They don’t have the ability to take the perspective of someone else. This happens because babies don’t know that someone else’s discomfort is not their own. Have you ever seen 2 babies in a room and when one starts crying, the other starts crying too? Having kids born 15 months apart, I know this all too well. But while a child sees a cat that is soft and fluffy, a goldfish only sees terrible yellow eyes distorted by the lens of the fishbowl, a mouse mostly registers ferocious teeth and claws, and a bat sees a cat-shaped collection of white dots illuminating the dark.Įach animal’s vision of the cat is informed by a combination of proximity, physiology and emotion, in a quietly brilliant demonstration of the power of perception. In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, Brendan Wenzel’s simple, rhythmic prose and ingenious illustrations take readers on an imaginary walk alongside a cat. The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, and paws.
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