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Synopsis
Franny and Randy are twins who live with their aunt at the edge of a dense forest. There they meet a mysterious old man who is always surrounded by cats. The townspeople avoid the odd character they call the Over-the-Edge Cat Person, but he shares his real name with the friendly twins and makes their secret wish come true. Recommended for children ages 7 to 9.
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About the Author
Thirty years ago, Professor Ulrich Knoepflmacher of Princeton University began to teach children s literature a subject, he said in a New York Times interview, the academic world did not take seriously. A major scholar of British 19th-century literature, Knoepflmacher brought new respect to the field of kiddie lit and helped create a generation of critics focused on children s literature. In 2007 he received the lifetime achievement award of the Children s Literature Association. Knoepflmacher is Paton Foundation Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton, where he has taught for 31 years. He was a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley for the previous 17 years. He is the author of Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity; Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel; George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism; Laughter and Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era; and Wuthering Heights: A Study. Knoepflmacher s annotated Penguin editions of children s classics, Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess and George MacDonald: The Complete Fairy Tales, have undergone several printings. In 2007, Knoepflmacher received two prestigious awards: the Anne Devereaux Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award of the Children s Literature Association for his lasting contributions to the field of children s literature and Princeton s Howard T. Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. His other awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Knoepflmacher fled Vienna with his parents in 1939 and grew up in the village of Oruro, Bolivia.
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