Like Likes Like - Hardcover

Raschka, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751371998 ISBN 13: 9780751371994

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

At first there are not two cats. There is only one. Alone. But he looks about him at all the animals in pairs together. And he gets moving.

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Review

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, they'll perk up their ears and go from downcast to joyous in a few turns of the page.--Karin Snelson, Amazon.com

About the Author

Chris Raschka was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania on March 6th, 1959. He grew up speaking both English and German with his parents, his brother Paul and his sister Renate. Writer, artist and musician, Chris Raschka combines his three great passions to create original and daring picture books for young children. Chris Raschka's picture books include Yo! Yes?, a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994, Charlie Parker Played Be Bop; Mysterious Thelonious, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Can't Sleep; The Blushful Hippopotamus; Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg; Arlene Sardine; and a version of the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. He has also illustrated the latest 'found' Margaret Wise Brown title Another Important Book, and Happy to Be Nappy a first children's book for bell hooks. His latest book for DK Ink is Like Likes Like which The New York Times describes as having "Exuberant illustrations [which] enlarge a simple but eloquent text". Chris lives in New York City with his wife and their young son.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751371998
• ISBN 13: 9780751371994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32