By Nicola Kent (author) , Nicola Kent (illustrator) Part of the Cat and Dumpling series
"A fun story about friendship, with lovely colour illustrations and short chapters - perfect for newly independent readers."
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There is something very special about a chapter book. Created for the 5–8 age group, chapter books fit that reading space between picture books (though, of course, we all know nobody ever grows out of picture books!) and middle-grade novels. This 5+ age is also very special as not only are children learning to read, they are rapidly learning about the world around them, about who they are, and how to become independent people.
The Cat and Dumpling series fits this developmental stage perfectly. The illustrations are delightful, colourful and fun. The storyline bounces along in short chapters – a few jokes and a few trickier words. Nicola Kent says she likes her books to feel like they are handmade at the kitchen table, and she certainly achieves this.
Cat the Cat and Dumpling the Dog are very different. Cat is spontaneous, whilst Dumpling is more thoughtful. Cat likes fun and busy, Dumpling is happy absorbed in his gardening. But they are the bestest of friends. In this book, Cat and Dumpling try to go on holiday. They have very different ways of planning the holiday and even fall out a bit, but the story hinges on these two cute characters, how they navigate their friendship, how they support each other, show tolerance and patience and forgiveness. All extremely useful lifelong skills that we are constantly perfecting!
And what's even better is there are three more books in this entertaining series.
For more chapter books that are perfectly sized for little paws, take a look at the Little Gems series and our collection of Chapter Books for Newly Independent Readers.
The third in a charming new series by author Nicola Kent. Packed with beautiful full-colour illustrations and a delightful story about best friends, Cat and Dumpling.
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Cat and Dumpling are best friends, but they're very different. Cat is an impulsive dreamer who loves to knit, and Dumpling is a cautious planner who loves gardening.
In these chapter books for early readers, the pair's far-fetched schemes and conflicting ideas wreak warm-hearted slapstick havoc, but always with a happy ending and a reassertion that despite their differences Cat and Dumpling will always be the very best of friends.
In Go Camping , Cat is itching for an exciting holiday. Dumpling thinks holidays need careful planning, and he can't just leave his garden when there are so many things to do. Following a clever solution to a mishap in the garden, Dumpling agrees to join Cat on a camping trip. But they run into a problem every step of the way! Will they ever make it to the campsite to have their holiday?
Look out for the next book in the series: Cat and Dumpling: The Super Duper Shop .
Nicola Kent is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books that have been published in over 20 different languages.
Nicola has been working with words and pictures all her life. She did a degree in Art and English, worked as a TV producer for the BBC and Channel 4, wrote scripts for children’s animation, and finally kickstarted her dream of a career in children’s books via an MA in Children’s Book Illustration.
Nicola likes her books to feel handmade as if created at the kitchen table especially for her reader. Her illustrations are made with ink, watercolour, pencil and various printing techniques which she collages together digitally.
Nicola grew up in Holloway, London and now lives up the road in Hackney with her family, cat and dog. She loves gardening and cycling and thinks knowing how and when to be silly is one of the most important life skills.
Nicola has a tracheostomy and a very quiet voice. This was caused by damage to her airway during treatment in intensive care when she was a child, and multiple surgeries since. The left side of her diaphragm is also paralysed which means her breathing is difficult on stairs or hills!
Nicola’s experience of chronic health issues and disability are very specific but have given her insight into more universal challenges of coping with difference. She also understands from many years of experience the difficulties of juggling normal life with the patient’s life: treatment, appointments and health admin all add to the often tiring repercussions of functioning with a physical difficulty. And through her direct experience of a sudden and critical childhood illness, she has great empathy and understanding of children coping with the aftermath of trauma.
Nicola’s books often draw on her personal experience to create universal ideas that resonate widely, for example in The Strongest Mum and Giraffe and a Half . She regards warm humour as massively important and feels strongly that books that give those qualities to children can be hugely healing as well as entertaining and life affirming.
Nicola feels strongly that children with differences and disabilities should also feature in books in which that difference or disability is not the focus. Most people with a disability do not want it to define them. In Measuring Me , for example, there is a girl with a tracheostomy and a boy with a walking frame, but these are incidental in a book which is about extraordinary facts of measurement and scale in the human body.
Nicola enjoys events and school visits and feels it’s important and valuable that children are given the opportunity to meet people living with a disability who are also getting to work in a dream job!
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Cat and Dumpling: Go Camping and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
Cat and Dumpling: Go Camping features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Funny, Animal Stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Cat and Dumpling: Go Camping was written by Nicola Kent and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Cat and Dumpling: Go Camping has 83 pages
Yes it is part of Cat and Dumpling series
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