Laura Godwin

Two cats, one in the city and one in the country, chase mice before going to sleep.

One Moon, Two Cats

Sarah Sammis

One Moon, Two Cats by Laura Godwin is about two cats living very different lives but having similar adventures under the light of a full moon.

Thematically the book is akin to the Country Mouse, City Mouse parable. Here too there's a country cat and a city cat. But they don't meet and they don't comment on each other's lifestyle. Instead, the country and the city provide landscapes for their nocturnal explorations.

The one moon provides a point of similarity from which Godwin, paired with Yoko Tanaka's illustrations, begin to find other ways in which these two cats are similar.

The text has a nice, limited vocabulary, good for beginning readers. The eye catching, full page illustrations are good for group story time.

One Moon, Two Cats

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