Summary: On one rainy day, Sally and her brother are left at home alone while their mother is out. They are looking out the window watching the rain fall. They are so bored. Then out of the blue a cat with a large hat burst into their home. The cat loves to play games. Games that make messes. But he is not alone, he brings along Thing One and Thing Two to help him with his games. While all of this is going on the kids’ gold fish is trying to get the cat to leave. But the cat and his friends didn't want to leave. When the house was a mess the fish noticed the kids mother outside. The brother trapped Thing One and Thing Two and told the cat to take his friends away. So the cat did and he left. But he soon returned with some machine that cleaned up the mess just before the kids’ mother enter the house.

Critique: I personally love The Cat and the Hat books. I grew up listening and reading them. It is a funny book that will have children laughing as it is read to them because of the words and the pictures. I mean I laugh because the cat is trying to juggle a lot of things and it just looks funny. It is an easy book to follow along with. A lot of the words found in the book are repeated throughout the book.

Prompt: Create a list of questions to ask the students as you read the book. Some questions could be: Would you have trusted the cat? Is it ok that the cat made a mess? Was what the cat did an okay way to act? What would you have done if you were Sally or her brother?

Craft Element:
Reading- Character traits- talk with your class about what character traits are before reading the book. Then read the book and have the students focus on the different character traits the cat and hat displays in the book. Write your students responses down on chart paper.
Reading- Teachers can use this book to teach their students rhyming words. This book has tons of them.