Have you ever felt alone in the world while everybody else prances around "Two by two/ he and she/ curly and straight/ fancy and plain/different and same"? The little white kitten in Chris Raschka's heartwarming picture book Like Likes Like certainly has. "Unlike the rest/Unlucky, alone", the kitten is left to his own devices. He romps inrows of roses and sleeps in grass and moss until... "Look! In luck." He sees a sweet brown kitten. "Like likes like," and off they bound. "Not alone now/two together/in rows and rows/of roses." Raschka, creator of Mysterious Thelonious and the wondrous Caldecott Honour Book Yo, Yes!, has a knack for communicating emotion--and life!--with pure colour and spare, meaningful strokes. Children will adore this simple tale of love and, along with the wee kitten,
… read more...they'll perk up their ears and go from downcast to joyous in a few turns of the page.--Karin Snelson, Amazon.comRead More read less...