Clicker the Cat: Online Children's Book about Internet Safety Ages 6-8 Preschool (Clicker the Cat Healthy Tech Habits for Kids)

I found this picture book delightful, a wonderful way for parents and children to learn together the potential pitfalls of tablet overuse in a digital age of omnipresent devices. Author Kyla Cullinane has written a charming story in rhyming verse with delightful illustrations that children will love. Screen time and apps can be educational and entertaining. With the right safeguards, it is a wonderful way to learn and engage with others. However, as Clicker the Cat finds out, it can become obsessive and alienate you from your friends and from enjoying your life beyond the tablet. It is a good book for parents and grandparents to read with children and to begin a discussion that they will understand. They may know someone who fell into Clicker’s trap. How did that make them feel? At the end of the book Author Cullinane has useful Tips for Tablet Use with suggestions for how to control screen time and discuss internet safety. I highly recommend this charming picture book with its important message that is both entertaining and educational for parent and child. I gave it five big stars.

Clicker the Car by Kyle Cullinane has a good theme told well without being preachy. Gets the point across with rhyming words and simple, but nice, illustrations.

What a great book to remind us to be judicious with our kids screen time and vigilant about the dangers of technology without downplaying the importance of fostering tech competence! My 8 yr old and 6 yr old loved this book. It’s a message worth spreading. It should be an integral part of your library!

The story was flat, illustrations distorted and editor / author should have caught typos (tabelet for tablet). I have purchased several titles for a K-5 computer classroom library to use to teach my students strong digital citizenship skills. This book was not up to the standards the other titles were that I chose. I recommend choosing other titles over this one.

This short picture book is great for children! It's a super easy read, providing a very valuable message. Children these days spend too much time on screen and not enough playing outdoors and getting dirty like a kid is supposed to! This short story is well written, and has the cutest little cat as the main character! Over all, this book is a great choice for kiddos!

Great book on finding digital balance with technology use. Kids are often bombarded with new games and apps to play. This book provides a great conversation starter to talking about digital balance with technology!

Great for a computer class.

Very cute book!

(Background: My wife is a primary teacher specialising in Early Years and with a particular interest in the use of tech with young children. As such she has been delighted to see a growing body of literature of this type dealing with the use of technology with young children, so she was keen to see this one.)When I picked this up myself I could immediately see it was poorly made. The layout and typesetting is very amatureish and the book looks like it's been home-made with little thought given to design and no obvious sense of editing. (A book about a cat using his tablet too much should probably know how to spell tablet, for example.) My quick flick though the pages to read the narrative unfortunately didn't redeem the book - the story seems equally clunky.When my wife read through she called the story "incoherent" (What does make Clicker change his ways?) and simply said there's no way she would want to show it to any children. It's a great concept but sadly not followed through.For great books dealing with technology and young children, we'd recommend Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross's "#Goldilocks", "Chicken Clicking" and "Troll Stinks", and David Bedford and Rosie Reeve's "Once upon a time online". Having said that, these examples do all deal more with online safety rather than pure 'over-use of tech'. I guess we're still on the lookout for a great book dealing with this, but I'm afraid Clicker the Cat certainly isn't it.

The message of the book was good, but the format of it was quite awful. It looks like someone has printed it straight from ms word! There are no page numbers so no way to track it in my son’s reading diary (we ended up reading it all in one).Aside from that, the book provides a good message to kids about limiting screen time, I just wish it flowed a bit better!

Great book, superb for school use or home use.