Have you ever tried to teach a pet a trick? Sure training dogs is easy peasey, but a cat? That’s another story altogether. Lucky for us Nicola Winstanley and Zoe Si have created the perfect instruction manual How to Teach Your Cat a Trick in Five Easy Steps.

Teaching cats anything is never easy but with this step by step guide, it should be simple right? What starts simple, quickly becomes a bit of a disaster.

In a follow up to How To Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps, Nicola Winstanley creates another hilarious, chaos filled story of futility. Readers will delight in all of the mishaps between the child and the cat and may be inspired to try and train their own pets. The story is simple enough to appeal to the youngest readers as well as sophisticated enough to catch the attention of older readers making it a book that will have a nice long shelf life.

Zoe Si’s illustrations are perfect. They are dynamic and so full of movement and expression contributing to the humour in the story. What makes this book especially charming is the dog, just there in the background, meticulously following all of the instructions so proudly. This clever choice offers readers an extra little something when reading the story that perhaps they don’t notice the first time around. It’s a really fun little discovery.