{"id":2223,"date":"2025-10-10T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:09:01","slug":"here-comes-santa-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes Santa Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cat is concerned that he isn&#8217;t going to be getting a present from Santa this year (see the image below to understand why).  But he has a plan&#8211;he can <em>be<\/em> Santa.  And then he can give himself a present!  Much like Mo Willems&#8217; Pigeon, Cat is not one to let logic or plausibility stand in the path of a self-serving plan.  Unlike that series, Cat doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;voice&#8221; of his own&#8211;the reader (or audience) has to create a dialogue based on visual cues and signs. My youngest especially loved this one&#8211;it still gets read at Christmas time.  (I understand that this book is part of a series, but we never picked up the other books.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author:  Deborah Underwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrator:  Claudia Rueda <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251010_135100-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat is concerned that he isn&#8217;t going to be getting a present from Santa this year (see the image below to understand why). But he has a plan&#8211;he can be Santa. And then he can give himself a present! Much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,21,762,761,373,40,763,256,578],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-animals","tag-christmas","tag-claudia-rueda","tag-deborah-underwood","tag-dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus","tag-food","tag-here-comes-santa-cat","tag-mo-willems","tag-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}