The Wee Kitten Who Sucked Her Thumb

by Mary Tufts, Lucinda McQueen (Illustrator)

Mother Cat gets a wide variety of suggestions from her animal friends on how to stop Wee Kitten from sucking her thumb, but it is finally Granny Pig who gives the best advice.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Tessa Hensley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little kitten sucks her thumb nonstop, no matter what she is doing. Her mother is very worried about this and takes her to all of her friend's houses to see if they can giver her any ideas about what to do to make the little kitten stop. The mother kitten does not like any of their ideas one bit, so she goes home. Then she remembers her last friend saying to just leave the little kitten alone, so she decides to do just that. Finally, after mother kitten stops paying attention, little kitten stops sucking her thumb all on her own.

This book is simple and cute with good illustrations that have really good color to them and are very well done. The kittens are especially cute in this story.
This book can be used to get children to address any bad habits that they might have. Then as a class we can decide which bad habits we think will go away over time and which are ones that need to be stopped right away. This can be a helpful way of giving students advice on how to stop bad habits without calling them out on any one particular things they do, while also pacifying other students about embarrassing habits they haven't quit yet. By anonymously sharing various bad habits with the class students will see they aren't alone. They will also see that in some cases action doesn't need to be taken right way, or at all. sometimes things work themselves out.

[Ashley Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book came with an audio tape. The audio tape made me cry because I didn't want to grow up and stop thumb sucking, etc.