Pete the Cat may wear no hat, but he does sport cool white shoes and groovy buttons.
Eric Litwin’s Pete the Cat may be too recent to children’s picture book scene for UW-W students, but the lucky ones will have met him if they’ve read to a younger family member or been anywhere near a children’s library or elementary school in the past few years. Through simple, grooving’ lyrics, Pete has been teaching children not to sweat the small stuff. In I Love My White Shoes, no matter how he manages to stain his new white shoes, he won’t cry (“Goodness, no!”) he’ll “keep walking and singing, because it’s all good.” As Pete the Cat loses one groovy button after another in Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, he doesn’t cry (“Goodness, no!”) because “it simply goes to show that stuff will come and stuff will go,” and you may as well just keep singing.
Young Auditorium and the Early Childhood Conference will host performer, composer, and children’s book author Eric Litwin, on Friday, April 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM and 12:30 PM for an active, fun performance, sure to have audience members of all ages singing and dancing. Visit the Young Auditorium website for reservations.
Search Research@UWW to locate other Pete the Cat books which you will find in the Children’s Collections at Andersen Library, and keep your eye out for the new series, The Nut Family, introducing a new cast of characters, Hazel and Wally Nut.
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