We tend to take shadows for granted, until there is a hot day and we can't find a single shadow where we can get some respite from the heat. Shadows are important, which is what Boris the Siamese cat learns in today's picture book. They should not be taken for granted, and one should never, ever, lose them or let them wander off.
Boris and the wrong shadow
Boris and the wrong shadow
Leigh Hodgkinson
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Tiger Tales, 2009, 978-1-58925-082-6
One day Boris the Siamese cat wakes up after having a
delightful dream. The delicious aftereffects of his dream are soon replaced by
a distinct feeling that something is amiss. When Boris gets up he soon sees
what is wrong. Instead of having a cat-shaped shadow, he now has a mouse-shaped
shadow. Now, some cats would freak out if they saw their shadow acting up, but
Boris decides not to let such a “silly thing,” bother him. Instead, he goes
outside to enjoy the day.
Unfortunately,
the animals in the garden don’t have such a sanguine attitude to cats with
mouse shadows, and Boris is laughed at, squeaked at, and ignored. Try as he
might, Boris cannot help feeling rather depressed about his situation, and then
he sees something that pulls him out of his unhappy state. Boris sees his
shadow going by and he sets off in hot pursuit.
In this
delightful picture book we meet Boris, a cat whose shadow has been shadow-napped.
Or so it would seem. Though Boris is understandably upset about his shadow
problem, the experience teaches him something about what it is like to be a
small, defenseless creature that other animals don’t take seriously. Maybe it
was a good thing that this whole shadow conundrum took place.
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