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Celebrate cats in all their flowing, furry glory in Cats Are a Liquid, a charming picture book that examines the unusual physical properties of felines by writer Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Misa Saburi.Cats fill./ Cats spill./ Cats flow downhill.// Cats tip./ Cats drip./ Cats grip, snip, rip.// Cats are a liquid/ Except when they're not.Inspired by an Ig Nobel Prize-winning investigation of how cats behave like liquids, this book introduces some of the physical properties of liquids -- they adapt to fit a container, they flow like fluids -- and is just pure fun. Like its inspiration, it makes you laugh, then think. Back matter includes a brief introduction to the different physical states: solid, liquid, gas.
About the Author
Rebecca Donnelly is the author of many books for young readers, including the picture books Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy, and Cats Are a Liquid. Her debut novel, How to Stage a Catastrophe, was an Indies Introduce/Indie Next pick. Photo credit: McCluskey Photography, LLC
