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Luna the Wake-up Cat

To be honest, I’m not particularly a fan of the Rookie Ready to Learn series in general:  I find the activities in the back of each are often formulaic and only tenuously related to the story; each one ends by telling you someone’s version of what you just learned by reading this story (besides being patronizing, they often don’t hit the mark).  But if you do like this kind of thing, or you’re willing to ignore the extra features that don’t enhance them, the central stories are often good little stories, with redeeming qualities of their own.  This one in particular I’m afraid has little to recommend it.  It has none of the repetition or rhythm or rhyme that other books in this series have to help support emergent readers.  It does have illustrations that support the simple text.  It tells the story of a cat coming to wake up a young girl, which I guess will be content that some young children will be able to relate to, but it makes for a rather bland story.