Haylie Duff (Hillary's sister) reads this adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. This book nicely compares the waring clans as family of cats and a family of dogs. This helps the students better understand that the families do not get along and it also gives a better understanding how Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet could not get married since in this story a cat and a dog want to get married.

I would recommend this story for upper elementary students since Drooliet gets hit by a car and Romeow gives up one of his lives to save her. This may be upsetting to younger students and they may not fully understand the 'nine lives' aspect of the storyline. A great activity would be to compare this story to Shakespear's play.

Notes on the website:
This is an excellent website to share with a class. It gives a summary of the book, MANY activity suggestions that encourage deeper involvement with the story itself or the themes of the story. The video is not just watching some reading. The clips are artfully edited between the actor(s) reading aloud and showing the illustrations form the book (zooming in and out and panning across the page to emphasize details). Other great features of storylineonlie.net is it easily offers a full screen option and it also offers a caption option so you can read along!!! ( )