She tramples all over the window box and ruins Mr Thomas' flower display, she frightens Mrs Thomas and makes her drop the dinner she's halfway through cooking. She is forever leaping up at the window miaowing to be let in. Mog's forgetting of the cat-flap in particular, though, is turning out to be a pain. This is the beauty of Mog - she's just like a cat and at the same time she's just like a child. She wanted to go back into the house but she couldn't remember how. She ran around and around with a big fluffed up tail.

You see Mog is a young cat - her mind isn't on remembering things, her mind is on what's happening there and then. It's her own special door but she never seems to remember it's there. But most of all Mog forgets her cat-flap. When Mog is washing, she often forgets that's what she's doing and gazes into the distance thinking of something else altogether, while one of her legs stays sticking in the air. When Mog is chasing the birds, she forgets she can't fly and spends a lot of time falling out of trees. Mog's not that bright though - she's Mog the forgetful cat after all. She's got a funny, bemused little face and a tail that puffs up when she's excited. I like to think Mog has eaten so many eggs that she's starting to look like one - her head, with its little ears, bright eyes, and snubby, bright pink cat nose, is a perfect egg shape.

Mog particularly likes eggs for breakfast - they are her favourite things of all. Mog likes eating, sleeping in her favourite places, playing, chasing the birds and all those other feline pastimes. She lives with the Thomas family Mr, Mrs, Nicky and Debbie. Mog is a tabby cat with a white bib at the front and four white paws. Mog is the cat with whom every child can identify. The text is perfect accurate, rhythmic, humorous. Summary: Mog the Forgetful Cat is one of those picture books you need to buy, not borrow.