This children's literature work is recorded as an honorable mention in the eleventh Long-Form Children's Literature Newcomer Award. The 2012 award had no winning entry, and this work is confirmed as one of the honorable mentions.

An honorable-mention work from a year when the long-form children's literature prize had no winning entry.

An honorable-mention work in the eleventh Long-Form Children's Literature Newcomer Award. A local newspaper describes it as a realist work contrasting cats and humans while also carrying a distinctive, fantasy-like world and strong prose.

A children's work that sets cats and humans beside one another and lets a touch of fantasy seep into realism.