Four Asian books and too many cats!

I pulled some picture books off the lower shelves with my paws this morning, hoping one of them would be the right size to clean the kibble out from between my teeth.  None of them were, but everyone had left me all alone so I decided to read them to pass the time.   They all had Japanese or Chinese themes and two of them were about cats!  What is it with all the cats in the books in this house?  I should demand equal time - more dog books!!!!  Anyway, here are the titles in case you are interested:
"Yoko" by Rosemary Wells
"Three Samurai Cats" retold by Eric A. Kimmel
"The Ugly Vegetables" by Grace Lin (It should be "The Ugly Cats")
"Daisy Comes Home" by Jan Brett
Yoko is a Japanese cat who's having trouble fitting in at her obedience school, and no one wants to eat her food.  I liked this book mostly because there was SO MUCH food in it, but I thought it was very unfair that the dogs in the book were not very nice or smart.  This book was really good, but I would have liked it better if Yoko were a dog.
"Three Samurai Cats" has a fat and ugly rat in it who takes over a castle.  The daimyo, or lord, of the castle (a dog) gets the help of three different samurai cats.  The first two fight the rat and lose, the third is old and sleeps all the time.  How does that old lazy cat beat the rat?  You'll never believe it!  It has something to do with a rice ball - danged if I could figure it out, maybe you will.
"The Ugly Vegetables" doesn't have any good food in it.  It's all about gardens, and vegetables with Chinese names, and a little girl who looks like my little girl who is upset that her garden is ugly.  But somehow everything comes out all right when her mother makes a soup with the ugly vegetables that all the humans think is delicious.  At the end they say it was the best dinner ever, but obviously they've never tasted Alpo and Purina, or they wouldn't say that!
"Daisy Comes Home" has great pictures, and there were animals hidden in the mountains, even a dog!  Also, there were chickens.  I like chickens.  I like to chase chickens.  I had trouble paying attention to what was happening in the story because there were so many chickens.  Especially one, Daisy, who took a long trip and had many adventures, some of them scary.  The little girl, Mei Mei, is very brave and loves her chicken, not for the same reasons I loved her chicken.  There is a happy ending. 
Then my humans came home and made popcorn, and my day's story had a happy ending, too!