book : snot stew by bill wallace

This is a very-young-reader sort of a book; took me about 45 minutes. But it's surprisingly sweet, and not really preachy at all.

It's a book about two kittens who are taken in by a family after they've been abandoned by their mother when she leaves them to start another family. At first, they're scared, and then as they settle in, it shows the life of the family from the point of view of these little cats-- and the family doesn't seem all that great from that view. The brother, Toby, misinterprets the way the kids behave as a game, and when he tries to play like them, he becomes a horrible bully, and he doesn't stop until a dog nearly eats him and he has to be saved by his sister, Kikki.

And that's about it. Short, sweet, telling kids not to be a bully, and pretty darn charming along the way.