A Book of Cats
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The photograph on our cover by Sue Wilks is taken from Enough is Too Much Already, a new book by Jan Mark to be published as a Bodley Head Paperback Original in April (0 370 31094 2. £2.95). We are grateful to The Bodley Head for help in using this.
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A Book of Cats
Rosemary Debnam
A delightful variety of cat stories and poems are crammed into this collection. The cats vary in size, shape and color and the stories vary in length and mood and are interspersed with familiar and not so familiar rhymes. It is hard to pick out favorites but, on balance, I think I would choose 'How the Cat Became' by Ted Hughes (all about the very first cat who was told by the other animals in the wood to 'get a job' and he did) and an extract from Ursula Moray Williams' Gobbolino, the perennially endearing witch's cat. David McKee's pictures are, of course, both funny and charming. A good buy with wide age appeal from nursery to junior.