The Tortilla Cat

by Nancy Willard

Book Overview

When each of Doctor Romero s five children becomes ill, one after the other, with the same fever that took his dear wife, the doctor is not able to help them. Yet each child is quickly cured when a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152895876
• ISBN13: 9780152895877
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Adored by children

I am an elementary school librarian and have read "The Tortilla Cat" to at least half a dozen classes of 3rd and 4th graders. They have uniformly adored Willard's tale of a magical cat who can heal a deadly fever with the tonic of a tortilla. Willard's blend of whimsy and family love is right on target, and the doctor whose family receives the visitations of the mystery cat presents an appropriate touch of scientific skepticism at events he cannot explain. But even he is won over by story's end. This brief story, longer than a picture book but shorter than a short novel, also offers a wonderful chance to deal with children's thoughts and concerns about death, especially the death of a parent.

Splendid, colorful and touching

A splendid, colorful and touching book. Its message of transgenerational compassion will linger long after you put it down, and rekindle as soon as you pick it up again.