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How to Love a Kitten (I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books series)

Michelle Meadows

Illustrator: Sawyer Cloud

Ages: 6+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Random House Children's Books/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-593-48319-0

Keywords: Beginning Reader-animals, multigenerational,veternarian, advertising, interracial friendship

A brown-skinned child finds a cat and four kittens under a porch, cares for them, and finds their original owner. Simple poems. Warm, appealing illustrations.