These Numicon Shape Houses 1-10 Display Posters are perfect for a range of number activities for early years and key stage 1 children. Each poster shows a large Numicon Shape decorated to look like a house! Each house has a numeral that matches the number of windows shown on the house. The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day - at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid's heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians. Six-Dinner Sid has also been reviewed by The Canberra Times, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] School Library Journal, [5] Horn Book Guides, [6] Five to Seven, [7] and Magpies. [8] Unbeknownst to each of his owners, Sid the cat lives with six different people on the same street. By doing so, he’s able to get six different dinners every night! He also answers to six names, sleeps in six beds, and maintains six different personalities. Six Dinner Sid is considered a modern classic in children’s picture books. It has sold over 250,000 copies since it was published, is a Smarties Award winner, and is in the Daily Telegraph’s top 50 children’s books of all time.

Once upon a time, more than 20 years ago, my toddler introduced an imaginary friend: a cat called Sitty. She was a member of our family and our storytelling for several years - except one afternoon, when apparently she said she didn’t want to be my child’s friend any more! They made it up.It has been included on favourite cat book lists, [9] and has been mentioned regarding cat legal cases. [10]

What does Sid do when they refuse to give him as many meals? Does he apologise? No, of course not, he's a cat. He finds somewhere else - Pythagoras' place to be exact. The street might seem broader, less quaint but the residents are friendly, all know each other and welcome Sid and his dietary requirements with open arms. Sid can just be Sid and everyone's happy with it We couldn’t find Pippa anywhere in or out, but Katie took an instant liking to her potential new humans, and they to her. She went home with them and settled very contentedly, immediately. The mask comes off! The vet sees the same cat six times and makes a few phone calls. This is the big reveal. Does this say something about the human condition? Do we mind things less so long as we know about them? EXTRAPOLATED ENDING Sitty had a strong personality and presence (like my child), and I sometimes found tins of real cat food in my supermarket trolley.

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A sly commentary on the atomisation and breakdown of traditional social cohesion in urban communities that possibly also contrasts Aristotle and Pythagoras as philosophical and social role models in the form of a children's picture book. My father was a vociferous atheist, but the cats’ new humans believe the coGod-incidence of my husband mentioning Pippa and Katie when they’d privately decided to home cats again was a Sign. My father would be very amused - and happy for them all. The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day – at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid’s heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians. Goodreads reviewer Leone McDermott. "Six-Dinner Sid". Booklist. American Library Association . Retrieved 23 September 2021. Sid is a cat with six owners, six names, and most importantly, six different dinners! This charming and sneaky pet loves his indulgent lifestyle, until one day he is found out…

Inga Moore (2010). Six Dinner Sid: A Highland Adventure. Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 9780340988954. OCLC 455803269 . Retrieved 23 September 2021. Each of Sid’s ‘fursonas’ equate to a different cat archetype as established by folklore, nailed down by T. S. Eliot. DESIRE Think instead of the idiomatic expression ‘a dose of your own medicine’. Drinking disgusting medicine is punishment for Sid, for being disloyal and disingenuous. (For being a cat, basically.) ANAGNORISIS Inga Moore has beautifully depicted two British streets. One street contrasts with the other, in a didactic kind of way to be fair — in Aristotle Street the neighbours don’t talk to each other, whereas in Pythagoras Place, one street over, they do. Eleanor Stodart (14 December 1991). "A neighbourhood too stuffy for this cool cat" (scan). The Canberra Times. p.47 . Retrieved 23 September 2021– via Trove. .. as a whole the book is attractive and one that adults will enjoy reading to children.

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Six-Dinner Sid". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. 29 April 1991 . Retrieved 23 September 2021. Moore's warm watercolors depict a cozy, hillside neighborhood peopled with distinctively quirky characters. ... This tale of multiple mischief is as clever as the cat it features. Because the residents don’t talk to each other, they don’t realise. But when they do find out, they’re furious. So Sid moves to Pythagoras Place, where people chat with their neighbours, so they know he’s a six-dinner cat, But that’s not the intended takeaway, weakly lampshaded by the fact that he’s only taking it for good measure (it’s probably a placebo for the owners). We found friends who might offer the cats a new home, and took them round at time the cats were normally home. We knew Pippa had not been seen for a few days, but food was going, and Katie presumably wasn’t eating all of it. Pip Jones (31 January 2014). "Pip Jones's top 10 cats in children's books". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 September 2021. It's a sweet story of a cat who really thinks he's got it sussed, with all six owners believing Sid belongs to them… until they all find out. Busted!