The Underneath by Kathi Appelt -- Book Trailer

THE UNDERNEATH by Kathi Appelt, with drawings by David Small. Published by Atheneum Books, and available everywhere books are sold.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning.

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[MsRooiscool]

I kind was kind of on Grandmother's side about the NIghtsong and Hawk Man business. She completely abandoned her and never even came back to find her or anything! I probably would have done the same thing as Grandmother... admittedly. If Nightsong died on me, though, I would've been heartbroken.

[angelicwolf3]

The book was really sad but the author has a very creative writing style. I found it harder to write a report on it than read it because of its constant changing stories!

[mpThand10]

My family finished a cross country road trip listening to the unabridged audio book of The Underneath. My children are voracious readers and we frequently listen to audio books and we all agree that this book was exhausting and difficult to follow the multiple, jumping story lines. The redundant nature of the writing caused us to bet how many times she would use "trees", "missing" or "price" in a paragraph. It's sad when kids joke about who and how the next main character dies. Too much prose!

[swiftshadow2000]

i dont hate the book though itzs REALLY good

[swiftshadow2000]

i hate it i cryed wen the humming bird took the mom to the Land of the Dead.itzs sad

[swiftshadow2000]

@TheMachinimaFarm he was mean from the start though

[TheOneWingedBird]

Whoever created bad reviews of this book obviously doesn't appreciate any poetry. Honestly, I'm tired of books being written in the EXACT same style over and over again. It get's pretty boring and shows no originality or style. Thank God someone had the nerve to publish a book with their very own style of writing, and not the 'correct' kind or the kind everyone wants to read.

[groucheypen]

can somebody tell me the name of the music that

being played....pls

[lilnoon513]

@MRwalkthroughs100 garface he is a punk my favorite charictor is puck it sucks that he got lost:(

[TheMachinimaFarm]

@onlyone688 you have a good point, but everybody reacts to abuse in their own ways. He tortured those animals as sport, because he didn't know how to vent his anger properly.