Weight control

Flabby Cat and slobby dog

by Jeanne Willis

Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog share a house together and spend most of their days sitting on the sofa, eating and sleeping.  As time passes, the sofa seems to shrink so Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog wonder what they should do….. Eat and sleep, of course!  The sofa gets smaller and smaller and the house gets smaller and smaller and finally they are driven to action. On TV, Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog watch a programme about their 'distant relatives', the cunning tiger and the wild wolf.  They decide to try to find their relatives and ask whether they can live with them.  It turns out that their relatives are more distant than they thought and Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog embark on an odyssey filled with many hardships just to find them.  Unable to locate them, they make the arduous journey back home only to walk into the house and find them in the hall mirror!  Of course, all that walking, searching and hunting had made them both fit and trim.  They reflected on more than just their mirrored images and, "for the first time in a long time, felt really comfortable with who they were".  This a good book to read with kids in order to appreciate the importance of eating well and keeping active.

Citation:

Willis, Jeanne. Flabby Cat and slobby dog, London : Andersen Press, 2009. 

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