awfully straightforward telling of a common trope... but it did make me smile so ok rounding up to 3 stars. ( )

This is really a 3.5, but since I'm a cat lover and can identify with the cat and the little girl in this story, and since the illustrations are cute, I'm giving it the 4. I will look for the other Ginger books. ( )

girl befriends stray cat and finally takes it home ages 2 to 6

This book is about a little girl that feeds a stray cat and then she gives the cat a place to live.
Age: 4-6 years
Source: ECE

High level toddler. Great illustrations spur vocabulary in all ages. Not a board book. Longer plot but simple sentences and feelings that are relatable. Read with older children (need not be red all at once).

This is a story about a little girl and a stray cat and how the little girl saves and raises this "little" , "ugly" stray cat Ginger with lots of love and devotion.
Source: Pierce College Library
Ages: 2-4

An orange tabby cat gets a loving home (and the name Ginger) when taken in by a concerned little girl.
Source: Pierce College Library
Ages: 4-5

The comfortable older cat whose territory is invaded by a rambunctious kitten in Charlotte Voake's Ginger is a kitten himself in this story, living a cold and hungry life: scrounging for food in garbage cans, sleeping in a patch of weeds, at the bottom of a garden. And then one day, he finds a heaping plate of food waiting for him in the garden, and is slowly won over by the little girl who put it there. Yes, Ginger himself finds a home, in this one...

I enjoyed this second book - a prequel of sorts - devoted to Ginger's story, not least because I'm a sucker for any tale in which a homeless and neglected feline finds a home and a family! I liked the gentleness of the narrative, and the non-preachy way that the author demonstrated the need for patience, when interacting with stray animals: that sometimes it will take a long time to win their trust and affection. The illustrations, done in watercolor and ink, were just as adorable as in the first! All in all, Ginger Finds a Home was a worthy follow-up to the first story, and enough to convince me to track down the third, Ginger and the Mystery Visitor. ( )

Deftly-written and dashingly-drawn, but not a lot of meat on the bones. ( )

A little girl feeds Ginger, a thin little cat who has been living in a patch of weeds, and takes him home to live with her

source:pierce ECE
A little, hungry ginger cat lives on his own in a patch of weeds at the bottom of a garden, spending all day looking for food in dustbins and drinking from puddles... until one day, the little cat comes back to find something - and someone - waiting for him (amazon)