Cats Are a Liquid

Celebrate cats in all their flowing, furry glory in Cats Are a Liquid, a charming picture book that examines the unusual physical properties of felines by writer Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Misa Saburi.

Cats fill./ Cats spill./ Cats flow downhill.// Cats tip./ Cats drip./ Cats grip, snip, rip.// Cats are a liquid/ Except when they're not.

Inspired by an Ig Nobel Prize-winning investigation of how cats behave like liquids, this book introduces some of the physical properties of liquids--they adapt to fit a container, they flow like fluids--and is just pure fun.

Like its inspiration, it makes you laugh, then think. Back matter includes a brief introduction to the different physical states: solid, liquid, gas.

Rebecca Donnelly makes her picture book debut with Cats Are a Liquid. She was born in England and has lived in California, Florida, and New Mexico. These days she writes, studies cats, and works as a children’s librarian in northern New York. Her debut middle-grade novel, How to Stage a Catastrophe, was an Indies Introduce/Kids’ Indie Next pick.

Misa Saburi was born in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she illustrates children’s books, including Bearnard’s Book, written by Deborah Underwood, and Monster Trucks, written by Joy Keller.