Katy No-Pocket (1944)

Katy No-Pocket is about a kangaroo mother who does not have a pocket to carry her baby in, so she tries to discover other ways to carry her child.

One of my favorite childhood stories. Wonderful and beautiful. ( )

This represents a Modern Fantasy because the story would not be possible in real life. Kangaroos cannot really talk and "go to the city" to get a pocket. But it is believable in that Kangaroos are real. The media used in this book is watercolor. Katy is a round character because we continually learn about her problem and how she is going to try to solve it. She is revealed through her interactions, actions, thoughts, appearance, and the narrator. This book would be best for the Primary level.

I dislike this book, and would get rid of it if my children didn't enjoy it so much. It's not objectionable, just dumb. But my children think it is great fun, so maybe it's not so bad after all.

This is a story about a kangaroo who needs to find a way to carry her joey. After asking around and finding other people's methods don't work, she goes to the city where she gets an apron with TONS of pockets, and everybody is happy, etc. etc. etc.

It's not a bad book, per se... it's just that I find it really weird that the animals listed here are not found together in nature. It's one thing to have predators speaking to prey, that happens in picture books all the time, but to have African animals talking to Australian animals, and to have Woodland animals conversing with Savannah animals? It's a little weird, is all.

And the book is a bit wordy, a bit too long for the story it's telling. It's not really *all* that interesting. ( )