Porcelain Cat

Hearn, Michael Patrick

ISBN 10: 0316888567 / ISBN 13: 9780316888561

Published by Little, Brown US, 1990

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Porcelain Cat
• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316888567
• ISBN 13: 9780316888561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 136.1 grams

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Synopsis

Rats are gnawing at the sorcerer's books. What to do? Get a cat-but not just any cat. The sorcerer sends his apprentice nickon to fetch a missing ingredient for a spell that will bring his porcelain cat to life. Nickon ventures out on his mission and learns you can't get something for nothing. Beautifully printed in a new 10 x 10 format and in five colors.

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3 ``You scratch my back. . .'' is the way the world, and this tale, works: an old formula but a reliable one, in an enchanted, elegant new guise. In this version the magician gets his basilisk blood when the witch gets her shellfish from the undine, who gets her mushrooms from the centaur, when the magician's apprentice climbs a tree to get him some ripe fruit (this is the weakest link). The point that ``a bargain is a bargain'' is clearly but amusingly made, and the conclusion is a clever surprise (somewhat muted by a puzzling final image). The Dillons create a magical nightworld for the tale, all attenuated art nouveau curves; flat planes of muted color; and stylized, elongated forms. Strange moon-faces haunt the starry sky, and cats hide behind trees and float in cloud-shapes above. (Don't miss the Escher-like endpapers.) This first Hearn-Dillon collaboration is a ``smashing'' success; a book to read, and to pore over. Patricia Dooley, formerly at Drexel University, Phila.
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