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By Conny Withay
Published on June 29, 2012
 

Author: Ruth Hartman Berge

Illustrator: Ray Russotto

Publisher: Ruth Hartman Berge

ISBN: 978-1-477-44730-7




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Author: Ruth Hartman Berge

Illustrator: Ray Russotto

Publisher: Ruth Hartman Berge

ISBN: 978-1-477-44730-7

Writer and columnist Ruth Hartman Berge from Florida dearly loves her family cat, Betty, even though it has a few physical disabilities. She writes about it in her short children’s story, Betty Tales – The True Story of a Brave Bobblehead Cat.

This unnumbered twenty eight page small paperback book has a bright yellow jacket with a drawing of a small happy cat in a woman’s hands on the front and three paragraphs about the book with three young critics’ reviews on the back and a photograph of the author with her all black cat. Besides notes to parents, a dedication and an introduction at the beginning of the book, there are also pages about the author and illustrator with more reviews and acknowledgements at the end of the book. There are simple, small but understandable black and white drawings on almost every story page. No typographical or grammatical errors were noticed.

The easy-to-read book is a true story about Berge’s family cat that is found by the thirteen year old daughter as she walks home from school. Being a tiny feral kitten from the nearby woods, it is dirty, scared and hungry. After a cleansing bath and bottles of milk, the cat goes to the veterinarian’s office for a checkup. While getting shots at the vet, the family learns the cat has a strange muscular disease that will keep it small in stature and limping all of its life. The family decides to keep bobblehead cat Betty because they love and cherish the feline.

In spite of Betty having a challenging handicap, it is very determined and sometimes stubborn. It refuses to be carried up and down the stairs or placed on the bed. Berge tells fun, silly and inspiring stories about the life of the hindered animal as it is afraid of a ceiling fan, wants to catch birds outside in a birdbath and considers itself king of the house.

Since there are quite a few big words, this book would best be read aloud to the younger age child so he or she could learn and understand their meanings. Berge does an excellent job by explaining that not only cats but people too can overcome many disabilities. We can adapt and, with education, be comfortable with those sometime debilitating, restrictive skills. Hopefully she will continue to write a series about animals with physical problems and how they and others acclimate to our world.

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