Puzzling Cats

Readers get an up-close look at cats that appear in eight works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in this oversize board book, which features a 16-piece jigsaw puzzle for each image; they range from an 18th-century Chinese handscroll that shows cats frolicking to a cubist portrait from French artist Fernand Léger. Opposite the puzzles, which are insets of the larger works, interactive prompts (“There are three cats in this painting. Can you see them all?”) and background information (“See the card in the bird’s beak? That is where the artist wrote his name on the painting”) invite study and discussion. Simultaneously available: Puzzling Dogs. Ages 3–6. (May)