Prolific Painter! Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete by James Dean

Pete is going to the pet store... to get a pet.

At first Pete thinks he wants a bird. But when he sees a goldfish, he falls in love with her. It's Goldie for him! Back home Pete puts Goldie's goldfish bowl in his room. He feeds her some fish food.

NOW WHAT?

Pet knows he can't swim with Goldie at the beach. He can't exactly play with a pet in a bowl! But there's one thing Pete CAN do!

He paints a picture of Goldie!

When his mom admires his painting, Pet gives it to her as a present. But when his friend Bob sees Pete's painting he wants one. Bob is wowed! He shows the painting to Tom, and then Tom wants one. And when Pete takes his painting to school for show-and-tell, the whole class is wowed! PETE HAS A PROBLEM. Now everyone wants a painting of Goldie. Pete tries to comply. He uses up all his paints and has to buy more at the art store. Pete has another problem. He wants to please everyone in his class but he doesn't even have time to do his homework! What to do? But Mom comes through with an idea of how everyone in town can see a painting of Goldie, in James Dean's Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete (My First I Can Read) (HarperCollins), in which Pete takes advantage of the roof rack for his surfboard on their VW Beetle to display a giant painting of Goldie to everyone in town! This My First Shared Reading book gives all Pete the Cat fans an opportunity to enjoy Pete's artwork while they are practicing their reading. For seasonal fun, share this one with James Dean's Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete.