Clicker the Cat: Online Children’s Book about Internet Safety Ages 6-8 Preschool (Clicker the Cat Healthy Tech Habits for Kids)
£7.20
Winner of Mom’s Choice Awards™
Do you want to raise a confident child who can manage screen time successfully? Screens are everywhere but they don’t have to control your kids. Empower them to use their screens wisely and create good electronic habits!
This book series reaches kids at their level with a fun, engaging and educational story about balancing screen time with outside play.
Clicker the Cat carries his tablet everywhere he goes. He’ll play for hours and doesn’t know when to quit. That is until his friend, Digi the dog, comes along. Follow Clicker as he learns to balance his screen time with outside play. It’s a valauble lesson for any child growing up in this digtial age!
Written in rhyme, this is the first book in the Clicker the Cat series. It is the receipent of the prestigious Mom’s Choice Awards™. Teachers, librarians and parents agree this is a series you don’t want to miss!
Reviews:
“My students could easily relate to the main character and learned the importance of setting limits to screen time. Truly a special read! One we will read again and again.”- Amanda Cooper, Elementary school teacher
“So great it should be required reading in school!” -Patrick Kirkland, Physician and parent
“Incredibly relevant in today’s media rich world…Families are going to fall in love with Clicker the Cat!”- J. G., School librarian
“I highly recommend this charming picture book with its important message that is both entertaining and educational for parent and child. I give it five big stars.” Julia Grantham, Writer
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Additional information
| Publisher | Digital Kidz Publishing House (29 Aug. 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 43 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1732731403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1732731400 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 0.28 x 21.59 cm |
by MummyOfOne
The message of the book was good, but the format of it was quite awful. It looks like someone has printed it straight from ms word! There are no page numbers so no way to track it in my son’s reading diary (we ended up reading it all in one).
Aside from that, the book provides a good message to kids about limiting screen time, I just wish it flowed a bit better!
by Trevor Coultart
(Background: My wife is a primary teacher specialising in Early Years and with a particular interest in the use of tech with young children. As such she has been delighted to see a growing body of literature of this type dealing with the use of technology with young children, so she was keen to see this one.)
When I picked this up myself I could immediately see it was poorly made. The layout and typesetting is very amatureish and the book looks like it’s been home-made with little thought given to design and no obvious sense of editing. (A book about a cat using his tablet too much should probably know how to spell tablet, for example.) My quick flick though the pages to read the narrative unfortunately didn’t redeem the book – the story seems equally clunky.
When my wife read through she called the story “incoherent” (What does make Clicker change his ways?) and simply said there’s no way she would want to show it to any children. It’s a great concept but sadly not followed through.
For great books dealing with technology and young children, we’d recommend Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross’s “#Goldilocks”, “Chicken Clicking” and “Troll Stinks”, and David Bedford and Rosie Reeve’s “Once upon a time online”. Having said that, these examples do all deal more with online safety rather than pure ‘over-use of tech’. I guess we’re still on the lookout for a great book dealing with this, but I’m afraid Clicker the Cat certainly isn’t it.
by Kitkatshoe
Great book, superb for school use or home use.