Little Miss Dilly Dot

By Malinda Mitchell and Rosita Schandy

Little Miss Dilly Dot is a kitten born in an alley. Her first of many adventures starts when her mother and siblings are adopted but she is left behind while she is playing with friends. Dilly Dot is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150109601X
• ISBN13: 9781501096013
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 8.5"

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Little Miss Dilly Dot Review

Book: Little Miss Dilly Dot Rating: 5 stars Reviewed by: Wayne Walker If you were a little kitten who lived with your family in an alley but then one day your family was gone and you were trying to find them, how would you treat the people whom you needed to ask about them? Dilly Dot, who had one silver spot on the tip of her tail, is a longhaired white alley kitten, the smallest of her litter. When she is two months old, she wanders away from her family to play with her friend Pan Pan Mouse, and while she is gone, a lady adopts her mother, brother, and sisters. Imagine Dilly Dot's surprise when she gets home and no one is there! She must find her family, and begins asking her other friends, such as Bug Eyes Jim and Tasteless the Rat, if they have seen them, but she is very rude to her friends. Will Dilly Dot ever find her mother and siblings? There are four subsequent stories in this book. In one, Dilly Dot wanders off again, getting lost in the woods and must depend on a rabbit and an owl to rescue her. In the next, she wanders off still another time to visit her friends back in the alley and they all go to the fair where they encounter a number of problems. In the last two tales, she meets Fred Blue Jay who is entering a contest and then visits Hummingbird Hill where she finds a hummingbird named Small Feather who is as mean as she herself has been. The first edition of Little Miss Dilly Dot was reviewed at Stories for Children by Gayle Jacobson-Huset, currently the Fiction/Poetry Editor of SFC, who said, "Author Malinda Mitchell certainly has a gift of a strong 'voice' for all her characters--you will definitely enjoy getting to know them all." This is quite true. However, Virginia also noted, "Although this book was enjoyable, I was taken aback by the nastiness of the kitten every time she met somebody new. I could not guess author Malinda Mitchell's intent until the very end of the book as to why she wrote a book about a cute kitten with such a nasty temper. You'll just have to read the book yourself to figure out the purpose of this." In this second edition, a set of questions has been added to the front of the book that will explain Dilly Dot's behavior and help children understand how she grows to maturity in each story. It is certainly true that Dilly Dot learns some important lessons, and thus with the questions and guidance from a parent or teacher, Little Miss Dilly Dot can be an adorable way for children to learn the importance of being polite to people, obedient to parents, and generally considerate of others.

SFC 4 star review

This chapter picture book is 5 chapters, 74 pages long, and chock full of text. The illustrations are colorful and fun. Author Malinda Mitchell certainly has a gift of a strong "voice" for all her characters - you will definitely enjoy getting to know them all. Dilly Dot is a white kitten with a silver spot on her tail. She lives in an alley with her family and wanders off to play with her friend, Pan Pan, the mouse. While she is gone, an older lady adopts her family. Dilly Dot returns to the alley and can't find her family, so she sets off to ask every animal she meets to see if they saw her family. She asks help from Tasteless Rat, and Bug Eyes Jim (a beetle), who become her friends. Exhausted from her search, Dilly Dot falls asleep and is found by a human girl named Mercury who keeps Dilly until they can find her a home. Mercury's grandmother lives next door and is the one who adopted Dilly's family, so she is reunited with them at long last. In the next chapter, Dilly wanders into the forest and gets lost. She meets Bullet the Rabbit who helps her find the way by having Mr. Owl show her the way home. The rest of the book has Dilly Dot and her new friends going to a fair, meeting Fred the blue jay and Roger a squirrel who's convinced he's a bird. The last chapter has Dilly Dot at Hummingbird Hill. Through her experiences, Dilly Dot teaches the Hummingbird, Small Feather, a lesson in friendship. Can you guess what it is? Although this book was enjoyable, I was taken aback by the nastiness of the kitten every time she met somebody new. I could not guess Author Malinda Mitchell's intent here until the very end of the book as to why she wrote a book about a cute kitten with such a nasty temper. You'll just have to read the book yourself to figure out the purpose of this. This is a book that I think a parent should be present when being read by children 8 or older to encourage discussions regarding the kitten's reaction to everything and for the parent to point out the changes the kitten undergoes throughout the book.

Little Miss Dilly Dot

Through a series of five charming little stories for young children, Author Malinda Mitchell shares the adventures of Little Miss Dilly Dot, a long haired white alley kitten. Dilly Dot is a precocious, fun loving kitten, and like most children, frequently gets herself into trouble. The story begins with Dilly Dot losing her family because she stayed too long playing with a friend. With help from Tasteless Rat and Bug Eyes Jim, she sets out to find her mother and siblings, narrowly avoiding danger along the way. Exhausted by the end of the day, she is found by a little girl who takes her home and ultimately enables her to find her family. In Little Miss Dilly Dot Gets Lost, the kitten lets her curiosity overcome her good sense. Lost in the woods she must get help from a Rabbit to find her way back. The book concludes with a day at the Fair and finally a little taste of her own medicine, Dilly Dot meets Roger squirrel, a stubborn fellow who believes he can fly. Mitchell has accurately captured the feel and typical vocabulary of a contemporary child in chronicling the adventures of Miss Dilly Dot. The prevailing theme running through all the stories is the value of being nice and polite, without being preachy. All the stories leave many opportunities for adults and children to discuss topics like manners, peer pressure and impulsive decisions through the entertaining and non-threatening behavior of this kitten. The Little Miss Dilly Dot Stories will have mass appeal with their engaging characters and familiar themes.