Eagle Book Club

Kitten's First Full Moon illustrated by Kevin Henkes won the Caldecott Award in 2005. Personally, I didn't care much for this book because I failed to see the point in the story. Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk. She then proceeds to get herself tired, wet and even more hungry trying to reach it. She never reaches it and dejectedly goes back home to find a bowl of milk on the porch. I felt relieved for that bowl of milk on the porch, but what was the point? I suppose it should be viewed as a lesson in perseverance because she was rewarded for her futile efforts when she made it back home, but I just felt too sorry for the poor cat to even see that.