Summary: This story is about a cat that lives with the Lazybone family. In the beginning the family complains about the cat not doing anything. They believe that he would be better as a blanket, coat, hat or slippers. It continues throughout the story. The cat goes out and provides for the family when they are cold, hungry, board, and want money. Even after everything they still complain about the cat. Eventually the cat is fed up with being taken advantage of and he goes and gets all the people he stole from. The Lazybone family is then taken to jail.

Uses: To teach that having everything isn't always important as well as teaching the students that people who do not get things honestly do not end up happy.

Genre: Fantasy- This story fits this genre because the cat steals for the family in order to help them survive.

Media: Oil Paint

GENRE Fiction PB

Publication Date 2005

Author(s): Gary Hogg

Title: Look What the Cat Dragged In!

Illustrator(s): Mike Wohnoutko

As a family sits around one evening with every complaint in the world, the cat, and not in positives ways, is the solution to all of their problems. The cat in a clever fashion drags in the solutions to all of their problems in order to protect himself from his mean owners. In the end the cat throws in a twist. ( )