While a family leaves Rome on a tour of European cities, a cat shadows their tour, popping up in all the same places. Lovely because it features less common spots: Marseille, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Munich are underrepresented in picture books. There's back matter to give a little more info on the specific sites shown.I'd dearly love a whole series of these with cats touring all the continents, because cats.Library copy 3.5 starsThe illustrations are perfect representations of each city. Having just been in Venice, Italy this summer, when I turned to that page I felt like I was transported right back there. A wonderful journey through Europe with country flags to help clue into which country each illustration is in. Kids could have fun spotting the little boy seeing the cat in each stop on their vacation. There is a nice rhythm to the text; however, the repetition of the name "City Cat" got old pretty quick. I felt it was overused taking me out of the story a bit.
Do You like book City Cat (2013)?
Interesting concept, great "tour" of European landmarks, but a little on the long side.
—cuppy123
Notes:too long for a young listenertoo much baby-ish talk for the older listener
—amador912
Love the beautiful pictures...the story-not so much.
—EllieMay007
The illustrations are wonderful. The text . . .
—kitchensync
