An anthology of old and new stories and poems from various parts of the world about the various members of the cat family.
Contents
Plans / Maxine W. Kumin -- Cat who went to sea / Robert Garfield -- Tabitha Twitchell / Jean Condor Soule -- Three in a tree / Mabel Watts -- How does it work? / Margaret Hillert -- Cat and the mouse / Richard Hughes -- Seven white cats / Alice Dalgliesh -- Cat / Valerie Worth -- Alice's adventures in Wonderlant. Cheshire cat / Lewis Carroll -- Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Fox and the cat : a German folktale / The Brothers Grimm -- When human folk / Oliver Herford -- Two Aesop fabels / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Cat, the mountain goat, and the fox : a Puerto Rican folktale / Pura Belpré -- Wishful cat / Dahlov Ipcar -- Perrault's French tales. Puss in boots / retold by Lee Bennett Hoplins -- Cat the the she-fox : a Russian folktale / Janet Higgonet-Schnopper -- Wonderful wizard of Oz. Cowardly lion / L. Frank Baum -- A cheerful old lion / anon. -- How to bring up a lion / Rudyard Kipling -- Brer tiger and the big wind : an American folktale / William J. Faulkner -- Animal family. Lynx / Randall Jarrell -- Tiger's whisker : a Korean folktale / Harold Courlander -- Htaman tiger : a Burmese folktale / H.H. Keely and christine Price -- Tiger, tiger / William Blake.