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The book is about the Cat Family visit the Museum. The cover and graphic are so cute. There's a highlight section to flip the underneath. It gives an interesting reading experience for the little one. I'm sure children will love this book.

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Wonderfully illustrated book about the Cat Family visiting a museum. Each page is a different room in a museum and gives a lot of detailed information of what they are seeing. There is also lots of flaps to lift and view the little surprises along the way. I would recommend this to kids around age 5 and up.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for a chance to read and review this book in exchange for an honest review.

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This is the perfect book to read to get a child excited about visiting a museum.

This book started out strong with the vikings exhibit, I thought we were going to touch on the history of cats and learn some fun things about the animal but it more so went into a direction of fun little bits of information here and there about things in history and different cultures or places of the world.

The artwork in this book is so beautiful! Although the lift flaps weren't filled with information about artifacts or history like I expected, they were still fun to look at. It consisted of lots of little hidden homes for mice.

I would recommend this book to any classroom that might be preparing for a field trip to a museum.

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Such a fun read, this one! Can’t go wrong with anything that has to do with cats, to be honest. The field trip at the museum is so relatable and CAT-tastic! We love our fur babies and friends as much as we enjoy reading stories about them.

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Cat Family at the Museum is a wonderful lift-the-flap book with tons of doors and drawers and flaps to open! I love that the Cat Family is going to the museum and the kittens get to learn about all kinds of fun and interesting things! The illustrations and pictures here are very detailed and well done. Great book to encourage curiosity and learning!

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this advanced review copy (ARC) in exchange for my honest review on the book!

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I read this book repeated with my four year old at a excellent bedtime story. I really enjoyed it and she did too. It has such a cute story and illustrations you don't often see inn modern story books. the details in the storyline and the accompanying pop-up pictures were so whimsical and cute.my daughter is definitely a cat lover and she loved the entire family of cats. Seriously, the quality of this children story is NOT something we see often this days it felt like revisiting a story that would have been popular when I was a child. nowadays picture books feel like they get away doing the bare minimum and this book was thoroughly detailed, very cute, smart and very lovely book

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Lucy Brownridge's "Cat Family at the Museum" is real treat for young children and their families who want to instil a love of museums. The story (beautifully and remarkably illustrated by Eunyoung Seo) goes through each room in the museum so that young children can see every aspect of that room's subject matter. They can flip up pieces of the book to reveal treasures of that particularly room: fashion, dinosaurs, rockets, etc. It's definitely a book I would give to children to inspire them to find subjects that they want to learn more about. It's a book I would give as a gift to young children to make them want to learn and to see museums as sites of creativity and pleasure.

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"Cat Family at The Museum" is a sweet book with adorable illustrations and a sweet depiction of a happy cat family and their trip to the museum. Children will find this book to be both enjoyable to look at, with plenty of fun, secret windows, and educational to read,

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

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This is a very cute children's` book -- it takes you on a tour of a museum and gives limited facts about the different exhibits you may find at a museum . For children how enjoy touching and exploring this book has flip up parts to discover more that is hidden at the museum. Fun to do together with your young child. Thank-you Netgalley for this book -- this is my honest review.

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I have never been a lift-a-flap book fan, I only like the ones when the flaps hide some things that are worth hiding, such as offering an insight to the internal structure of some things.

This book is not one of those. But I still love it. The flaps hide mice. It works not in a non-fiction informational text kind of way but in a cute fun way that kids will surely love.

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This book is very cute and fun to go through. A visit to the museum with a family of cats and kittens, it hardly gets more adorable than that.

Given that it is a lift-the-flap format, however, it would be more interactive and pleasant to experience it as a paper-based format instead of digital. But otherwise, it’s a lovely piece.

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Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and Lucy Brownridge for allowing me to read an ARC of this children's book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a cute and interactive book, I love anything to do with cats so knew I would like this too but I really enjoyed it and thought it was a nice story with a little bit of education too!

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What a curious, entertaining and precious book this is!

I loved that on each page there were so many things to see and then the different hidden scenes were added. That made me go back and forth to see exactly what was there before.

I work with children and I know that it would be one of those books that they would open more than once, that they would invite their friends to look at it with them and try to guess what is behind the surface.

I liked that they are all animals and that even being animals you can show the diversity between them, and the inclusion.

Thank you Quarto Publishing Group for the ARC I read on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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I'm a bit torn about how to review this book. I adored the art and the myriad lift-the-flaps, so very cool for slightly older little ones. However, the way the museum was presented was a little problematic to me, particularly the "Asian" culture room that flattened all of East Asia into one room. It's a very Western-centered museum, perhaps understandably, but I'd hoped it would approach the imperialist issue of museums with a bit more nuance.

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This book is both educational and beautiful. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and engaging. My young son enjoyed the story as much as I did. The lift the flap is a fun interactive aspect to this story. Definitely a book I’d recommend for young children.

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Absolutely gorgeous artwork. It is double page illustrations which means there is loads of stuff to look at and discover. I spotted something new every time I read through it.

The story takes you through various museum exhibitions and gives an easy to digest historical fact on each time period.

This is a lift-the-flap type book which is usually aimed at younger children. This one is aimed at 3-6 and is very suitable for that age range.

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Love the cover. Love the contents, specially the highlights! The content gives such great family vibes. I love the art and the colours used. However, I feel the writing and the art style seem a bit congested for the reading age group.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group - Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, for the advance reading copy.

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Such a cute book. The illustrations are beautiful and very detailed. It doesn’t feel much like a linear story, more a description of each page, but I think it could make it fun to go to the museum with kids. I like the flaps, that give a little cute detail.

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PLEASE THIS IS SOOO CUTE. A group of kitten siblings went to a museum with their grandparents and had a little tour there. The thing is, THIS IS A LIFT-THE-FLAP BOOK. My younger self would be absolutely obsessed with this book.

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A charming and cute story about a cat family's visit to the museum! Filled with fun activities of trying to find all the little hidden things in the book ! The artwork was really cute too and this was just an all around fun read.

*Thanks Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Frances Lincoln Children's Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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