You also don’t trust cats who are part of your clan who seem too friendly with cats from other clans. Although there are hints that the sectarian boundaries are fraying, in general you don’t trust cats who aren’t part of your clan. The cats all live in clans that compete with each other for territory and prey. SPOILER ALERT: Things you might want to know before suggesting this to your kid Xenophobia It’s great to see him so engaged with something. He and his friends talk about these books and make up their own stories. My son has enjoyed parsing the cat vocabulary (Twolegs, Thunderpath) and naming conventions. Overall it’s a fine adventure it’s part of a long series which has certain advantages to it, since it can keep even a voracious reader in books for several months. He’s the reason I think it’s criminal that nature movies are often rated G even when they have graphic hunting scenes in them.

Honestly, I’m surprised my sensitive boy didn’t have issues with this. If the cats weren’t fighting each other, they were killing prey. However, it felt to me like the fighting was nearly nonstop. I expected some fighting-after all, the title of the series is Warriors. And to some extent, anything that gets kids reading voraciously deserves some leeway.Īll of that said, when I finally got around to reading the first book, I had some issues with it. Many of his friends have read and loved these books, too. My nine year old son loves these books about clans of feral cats-he read the first six in quick succession, although he got bogged down in the super edition, Firestar’s Quest. Warriors: Into the Wild is the first in Erin Hunter’s extensive and expanding series.

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