Vibrant images complement the poetry style text about what a stray cat does all day. The narrator keeps asking the cat where it lives and it is eventually revealed that the cat lives in the city or wherever it roams. The city is his. This is a great book for teaching setting. ( )

For the graphics alone this is a book worth reading. Myers has combined photography with collage to create a vivid urban environment as a black cat goes about his day. Repetitive and colorful. ( )

I liked this book for two reasons. The first reason is because of its awesome pictures. Just like in Looking Like Me, the pictures look real. They look like real photographs that are copied and painted. The photos look like real city streets, real building, and real scenes from a city, but with a black cat drawn in every scene. The cat never looks lonely and looks mysterious to an extent. The pictures make the can look adventurous, sleek, and sneaky. Great way to display a sneaky black cat. Another reason why i liked this book was because of its moral. The last page of the book says, "anywhere I roam" when it asked by the narrator, where's your home?" The moral is that anywhere can be home for anyone. You have to make it home. It may need be a fairy tale home, or an ordinary home, but you can make it a home. If you do not like your home, you can always go find another home. It is what you make of it. You should be happy where you are it, and if you are not, you can change that. ( )

This book reads like BE-Bop and illustrates many everyday happening in Harlem. ( )

Age appropriatness: late primary to intermediate.
This book is a good example of poetry because it is a story of black cat roaming harlem set in a rhytmic pattern and repetition.
The media in this book is collage, ink, gouache, and photographs. ( )