Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes is a delightful tale of a young kitten that sees her first full moon in the sky and thinks it is a dish of milk. The kitten tries every way she can think of to get to the "dish," but with no success. After several attempts and ending up soaking wet, the poor kitten decides to head home, where her luck changes after all. For there waiting on her is a REAL dish of milk, which she happily laps up.
Kevin Henkes also did the illustrations for this book, which are all in black and white. I really enjoyed the illustrations, and the faces Henkes sometimes gave the cat to express its feelings were hilarious! They almost had a human-like quality about them. Henkes also had a Caldecott Honor book in Owen, and received the Newbery Honor for his novel Olive's Ocean.
Sources:
Henkes, K. (2004). Kitten's first full moon. New York: Greenwillow Books.
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