As much as we'd like to enjoy the company of our furry friends, we have to face the hard fact that their life spans are shorter than ours. What can we do to help loved ones cope with sad feelings when the time has come to bid farewell? Get inspired by new children's picture book My Cat Is Blue, written by award-winning author Sarah Sommer. Plus enter to win a signed copy and a $50 Amazon gift card!
About the Book:
Book Title: My Cat Is Blue by Sarah Sommer
Category: Children's Fiction (Ages 3-7), 36 pages
Genre: Children's Picture Book
Publisher: Mascot Books
Release date: October 2021
Tour dates: October 5 to October 18
Content Rating: G - Children's picture book featuring feelings of sadness and grief (loss of a pet), but no explicit content or language.
When someone you love is feeling down in the dumps, you try everything to help. But sometimes, you don't have the cure, and those blues can even become contagious. It just might be the unexpected that allows you both to shed your blues and move toward a bright and colorful future.
My Review:
In My Cat Is Blue, a little girl finds her cat acting very differently lately: looking sad, losing interest in his favorite food and toy, and ceasing to engage in any gestures of affection. After all failed attempts to cheer him up, the girl takes her cat to the vet, who suggests the recent loss of the family dog as the cause of the cat's blues and offers a possible solution that involves actions from the entire family.
Told in a little girl's words, the story is unique and heartwarming. What impressed me most is its brilliant use of color to express feelings of the characters and to indicate changes in mood. The story starts from the cat being blue to everyone in the story turning blue, which vividly shows how sadness can be contagious. The sweet memories appear in bright and rich colors to accentuate the harsh impacts of grief and loss. You can literally see someone's face light up as the blue and gray colors give way to warm and vibrant colors. Besides, the cat and the girl are beautifully illustrated with expressive eyes and cute body language.
The book provides feasible advice to help a loved one recover from the loss of a close friend or a cherished companion and move on with life. Love and support from family members are crucial to the healing process. It also suggests that we should be sensitive to the changes in behavior of someone we care about to facilitate early detection of psychological issues and seek help from medical professionals when necessary.
Buy the Book: Mascot Books
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About the Author:
Sarah Sommer is an award-winning children's picture book author who blends her love for music, animals, and positivity in her books. Having trained in classical music and performed internationally as a professional clarinetist, rhymes and lyrics are an important part of her writing style. She is an advocate for animals, as seen in her work fostering German shepherds, and as a result, animals are always a central part of her stories. Sarah aims to include encouraging themes, such as helping others, in all of her narratives because we all need a little help sometimes.
Connect with the Author: Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Instagram
One lucky reader will a signed copy of My Cat Is Blue and a $50 Amazon gift card!
Giveaway ends 10/25. Open to US only. Please enter below and good luck!
MY CAT IS BLUE Book Tour GiveawayDisclosure: I received a free copy of this book to facilitate my honest review. All views and opinions expressed are my own. icefairy's Treasure Chest is not responsible for winner selection or prize fulfillment.
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