String Ball
by Chris Monroe
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Pub Date May 06 2025 | Archive Date Mar 31 2025
Lerner Publishing Group | Carolrhoda Books ®
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Description
When a curious kitten encounters its young owner's string ball craft project, an amazing adventure ensues! The kitten squeezes inside the ball and begins to roll . . . right out the open front door. Yikes! Kitten and ball encounter playful pups, pecking birds, a baby in a carriage, and one very slippery slide. Whee!
In the tradition of Kitten's First Full Moon and Spot, the Cat, author-illustrator Chris Monroe takes readers on a journey they won't soon forget in this nearly wordless picture book.
Advance Praise
"Featuring spare visuals yet extravagant in its storytelling, a satisfying tale for impatient kittens everywhere."—Kirkus Reviews
"A fun book that requires a sense of story and an attention to detail."—School Library Journal
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9798765611517 |
PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 32 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews

My 2.5 year old LOVED this. The illustrations were super cute and because there weren’t really words it was a great learning opportunity to ask her questions about what happened on each page!

Let your imagination run WILD in this cute, adventurous and hilarious wordless picture book by writer and artist Chris Monroe!
The illustrations are exciting and fun and take you on this adventure when a cat gets stuck inside a (big) string ball and how it ends up coming back home, safe but not-so-sound.
Many of the expressions in the illustrations made me laugh out loud and the bizarre things the cat experiences!
This book will be a joy to read with your child and to come up with a new story of what the cat must be thinking, every time you read it!
One of my favourite picture books of this year!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

⭐️ 5/5
My 4 year old daughter LOVES this book! What a unique, silly story of a girl who creates a fun string ball and whose kitten finds itself on a wild adventure after it gets a little to curious. The book is wordless which gives us the endless opportunity of using our imagination to create the narrative for the story. My daughter has a blast being creative and telling her own version of the story along with the illustrations. I also enjoy the instructions on how to create the string ball! The black and white illustrations with pop of red was so fun and captivating.
Thank you NetGalley and publishers for an electronic copy of this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Netgalley ARC - This is so fun! The expressive animated body movements are adorable. The wordlessness works well and I love that everyone gets home safe.

This book has literally no words and manages to put across a funny and fully cohesive story with just a bunch of simple pictures! Totally recommended, the illustrations are gorgeous!

Delightfully clever, wordless story of curious cat and its red string ball.
This cat proves it has nine lines as it goes on an adventure in a red string ball only to realize that returning home safely is the best ending of all. Fun how-to-make-a-string-ball instructions included for your curious one, too!
Thanks to @NetGalley for sharing this DRC with me for an honest review.

Such a cute book with fun and beautiful illustrations. I loved how they incorporated the little pops of read and kept a minimal color scheme. My son really loved that since red is one of his favorite colors. We really enjoyed they kitties adventure and now we are going to make our own glue string balloon to play with!
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