Cat Kong by Dav Pilkey is an excellent descriptive tale of adventure and discovery. The story follows along with King Kong’s plot, but is substituted with a cat for the monster and mice for the people. Cat Kong is captured by the mice and transported back to the city of Mousopolis and is put on display. He escapes the captors and rampages through the city until he falls from a very tall skyscraper to his death.

The text follows along very well with the images. The text turns out to be very descriptive which gives the students a multitude of new words to infer from the images associated with them. While reading the text, you begin to see these conversations between the mice and parts that are not shown with the images, which leads to the visualizing the parts of text that are not shown through the pictures.

While considering options on books to use for the visualizing and inferring lesson, the best way we could think of, was to use a picture book that had descriptive text. This would give a good basis on unfamiliar vocabulary, because the text would be more advanced. The pictures are very detailed and showed exactly what was going on in the story. This is exactly what we achieved with this book, and it follows along well with taking background knowledge of the reader and applying it to the visualizing and inferring process to obtain deeper meaning of the text through descriptive images and vocabulary.