My mother is a mad cat lady

What would prompt a Year 1 student to say this while listening to Graeme Base’s new picture book, Eye to eye?  We had great fun with this book. Base has excelled once again. On the verso page is the silhouette that contains the clue and the right-hand side has the animal’s eye. When we reached page 33, and the students had to guess which animal or creature might live at the top of the world, little Miss Year 1 exclaimed that she knew it was a snow leopard. When asked how she knew she replied, “My mother is a mad cat lady!”
The students, from Prep to Year 5, enjoyed this book. They looked to find the teddy bear as he recurred throughout the book.

Eye to Eye | Graeme Base. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2015,
from http://graemebase.com/book/eye-to-eye/