A kitten creates havoc in the house knocking over things, climbing onto the roof, and hiding in the chimney and then spreading soot everywhere before charming the family with its cuteness. PreSchool-K-- Kitten hates cleaning day, with good reason. Brooms sweep him, mops attack him, and dusters chase him. He finally finds a safe niche in the study, but inadvertently makes a mess, thus facing his own clean-up. All ends well when he sneaks along on the family picnic and drinks his milk like a good kitten. Lemon-yellow endpapers, action-packed watercolor illustrations, large type, and the title character's goggle-eyed charm make this a visually appealing book, but the story lacks focus and fails to hold together. Kitten's disruption of the study does not follow logically from his earlier misadventures, and the picnic scene comes across as an unrelated coda belonging in a completely different book. His terror during the opening sequence lends a frenzied air to the house-cleaning zeal of his mistress, who makes no effort to avoid the frantic pet as she goes about her tasks. Even fans of Polushkin's Kitten in Trouble (Bradbury, 1988) will be disappointed by this endeavor. --Anna DeWind, Milwaukee Public Library Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Cats Kittens