Cat and Dumpling Home Sweet Home By Nicola Kent
Paperback published by Oxford University Press 6th March 2025
ISBN 9780192788450
An unlikely furry friendship Cat and Dumpling are as different as chalk and cheese! Cat loves knitting, playing guitar, and coming up with wild ideas. She needs a new home somewhere with space for all her wool. Dumpling loves gardening, reading, and peace and quiet. He needs a new home somewhere with a garden for all his plants. Cat and Dumpling both find the perfect place to live. The trouble is, it’s the same flat! Can they find a way to make friends and live together happily?
MY REVIEW
I absolutely fell in love with Cat and Dumpling Home Sweet Home, I couldn’t put it down, lovingly every word, and every chapter. I loved the idea why Cat needed a new home and why Dumpling the dog, needed a new home. Author Nicola Kent came up with some brilliant ideas in which homes each Cat and Dumpling tried before seeing the flat. The only thing is only one of them can take the flat. So which one could it be? Will everything turn out right and will they still remain good friends forever? I have read a few books by Nicola Kent, but this is my top favourite chapter. This book is author, illustrator, Nicola Kent’s first chapter book that sits proudly on my book shelf alongside my other favourite books. Cat and Dumpling Home Sweet Home is an easy, to read, funny, children book, that I highly recommend as its amazing, page-turning, colourful illustrated book. I know all children will just adore it! With my hand on my heart, It is most definitely a must buy.
About author, illustrator Nicola Kent
Nicola Kent is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, including picture books The Strongest Mum, Grumpy Hat and All the Dogs. She makes her illustrations using watercolour, ink and kitchen table printmaking techniques which she collages digitally. Her stories combine humour and emotional poignance.
Nicola lives in Hackney with her partner, two teenage children, a cat and a dog. She studied at the University of the Arts, London, and Cambridge School of Art. She worked for ten years as a TV producer before following her dream of making children’s books.
The Observer called The Strongest Mum “an outstanding debut… a tale as sweet as honey.” https://www.nicolakent.co.uk/
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