Sleepy Kittens
The read-aloud crowd might get a kick out of Sleepy Kittens, a board book version of a bedtime tale that Gru shares aloud with his three young charges in the movie. Taken directly from the screenplay, the rhyming text describes how a patient and affectionate Mama Cat settles her three little kittens into bed. Done in vivid pastel hues, the illustrations reflect the text's sweet-as-spun-sugar tone (it's enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the devotedly dastardly Gru). Felt finger puppet kittens (solidly attached to the book's back cover) allow readers to become part of the action."
-- School and Library Journal