Review: Mog the Forgetful Cat

Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I picked up this book because it was mentioned in Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins as something he was reading to his daughter. So I got curious.

The book wasn't in our library, so I asked for an interlibrary loan and, meanwhile, picked another book by the same author. I wish I hadn't.

Mog the Forgetful Cat on itself is not very bad, though it feels like something out-of-date. Not a book I would read to a kid now, but rather a book that my parents would listen to as kids.

The real problem was that other book, The Other Goose. They are practically identical! In design, in plot, in moral, in everything that counts. And that makes me sad. What's the point of writing identical books?

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