Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World

Yolen, Jane

ISBN 10: 0060291621 ISBN 13: 9780060291624

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2005

Synopsis

Paintings of more than fifty different cats in their native homes enhance a collection of cat stories, sayings, and nursery rhymes from Tibet, Oman, India, Scotland, the United States, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Yolen is one of the acknowledged masters of fantasy today. She is the author of more than two hundred books for children and adults. Her young adult novel The Devil's Arhtmetic won the Jewish Book Council Award. Her children's book Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, was awarded the Caldecott Medal; her fantasy novels Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna were both short-listed for the Nebula; and she's won the Nebula twice for short stories. She has also won the World Fantasy Award, the Christopher Medal twice, and the Golden Kite Award. She has written two previous books in the Young Heroes series with Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze and Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons. Jane Yolen lives with her husband in western Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.

From Booklist:

Gr. 1-3. Stories ideal for reading aloud and bright, appealing pictures make this collection, put together by acclaimed author Yolen, a natural for young cat fanciers. Based on traditions from around the world, the tales feature felines crying, dancing, behaving as tricksters, stealing, and purring their way through a plethora of adventures. The retellings are distinguished by direct, child-friendly descriptions; a banyan tree looks "quite a bit like a cage," and the moon glows "like a big piece of cheese." At least one of Wittwer's intensely colored, acrylic-and-oil illustrations appears on each page, comically depicting cats of varying breeds in a range of situations--from unlikely feline endeavors (playing bagpipes, rowing a boat) to more realistic cat pursuits. Though the cats' features occasionally seem overly cartoonlike, many children will enjoy the dramatic expressions. Source notes and suggestions for further reading conclude. Jennifer Locke
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060291621
• ISBN 13: 9780060291624
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Wittwer Hala