It is a ver cute story that can not be true in our real world. this makes it become a fantasy. The story talked about Nana Quimby found cats on the top of the tree. He gave phone calls to firehouse, police office , city hall, zoo, and other places to ask for help. the number of the cats up on the tree are increasing during he calling for help, but neither one of the place he called care about the acts up on the tree because it is irrelevant to their business. Finally, Nana Quimby thrown the telephone wire to the tree, and all the cats climb to his house through the wire. He lives with hundreds and millions of these cats. then, the places he have called for help call back to him to ask for help because the mice ran all owe those places. He said the cats do not catch mice anymore, call back if they want to hear cats purr. The book gives a nonsense funny story, meanwhile, giving students a general definition of the duty of the each place in this book. It can be used in reading class and social study class. ( )

One day, Nana Quimby notices that there is an accumulation of cats in the tree in front of her house. She makes phone calls to anyone that may help but everyone refuses to help her. Finally, she welcomes all the cats into her home. Then, everyone who refused to help her asks HER for help with a mouse problem; which she kindly says "no."

This book was about a lady who saw a cat up in the tree, so she called the firehouse to get the cat down. The firehouse said they would not do it, only if the cat lit the tree on fire. The number of cats in the tree continued to grow, and every place that she called refused to get the cats down unless it directly affected them. She decided to take it into her own hands. She threw the phone out the window into the tree and the cars walked across the telephone line to get into the lady's house. Ironically, the firehouse calls for a favor, but she denies it. ( )

Nana Quimby has a problem. There's a cat up a tree. So she calls the fire department, but they won't help - and when she looks again there are MORE cats. So she calls various other institutions, ranging from the sensible (police station) to the absurd (library), and finally city hall. Every call results in more cats stuck in her tree, until eventually she gives in and rescues them herself.

And when the whole city calls about the mice infestation... well, let's just say that turnaround is fair play and leave it at that. Sweet book, and a bit silly as well. ( )

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Genre: Realistic Fiction

Age Appropriateness: Lower Primary

Setting: This book takes place in a city some where. The location is not given nor by the description of the language can I tell what time period that it is in.

Characterization: Nana Quimby is the main character in this story but she does not change throughout the story so therefore she is a flat character. However at the end of the book she decides to fix her own problems by loving on the cats and that makes her a dynamic character.

Plot: As Nana Quimby is going about her business on day, she comes across a cat so she calls the fire department. But they tell her that they can not do anything about it. The cats start to multiply so she ends up call multiple people in the city to help her get ride of these cats but no one is willing to help. So she lets them all stay at her house. All forty cats enter her house.