Anushka Ravishankar's simple rhyming text - "Sunny cats / Sad cats / Greedy cats / Bad cats / Grinning cats / Cats with scowls / Chinless cats / Cats with jowls" - is accompanied by illustrations taken from the work of a variety of tribal and folk artists from India in I Like Cats, a charming little picture-book ideally suited for feline fanciers young and old. Whether the idiosyncratic portraits reproduced here are from the Ghond people or the Sohrai, the Warli or the Meena, the result is arresting: a visual feast of kitty-cats - stylized, intricately decorated, and all immensely appealing!

There's not enough of a text to make a story, but the sing-song narrative of I Like Cats, with its inevitable conclusion, makes this one a fun little book to read aloud. The artwork definitely holds the attention, offering the reader something they will want to savor. It's another winner from innovative Indian children's publisher, Tara Books! ( )

Lovely, whimsical handmade collection of felines by tribal and folk artists of India. ( )

The author uses simple text to explain the traditional paintings and drawings of cats included to illustrate this book. I’d like to know more about the traditional paintings and drawings than the brief line about the origin of each listed in the back of the book.

“Worried cats

S l o w cats

Hurried cats

Thin cats” ( )

A picture book on cats featuring artwork from India. The pictures were fascinating. I spent so much time looking at the pictures that I didn't even notice that the verses rhymed: "Sunny cats. Sad cats. Greedy cats. Bad cats." Not inspired writing and it's a bit pricey at $24.95, but still beautiful. ( )