 | The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats by Paul Gallico
Buy used from: $0.01 Funny, endearing, unforgettable manual by a cat for kittens. Too true about both human and feline nature!
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 | Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse by Henry Beard
Buy used from: $0.98 Too funny. Author really knows poetry and really knows cats, great satirical and affectionate approach to both (the one by Beowulf's cat is particularly funny for English majors)
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 | Blitzcat by Robert Westall
Buy new: $10.58 / Used from: $1.47 A cat experiences WWII in England while searching for her beloved owner. Again, really authentic catness, great human vignettes too.
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 | Night Cat by Irma Simonton Black
Buy used from: $5.00 My favorite read-aloud book-- it's out of print but Amazon sometimes has a few. What a "lazy" cat gets up to at night. Wonderful!
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 | James Herriot's Cat Stories by James Herriot
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 By the author of "All Things Bright and Beautiful," remember the PBS series about the English country vet? These are dear and sweet tales of both cats and people.
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 | Gigi and The Cat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Colette
Buy used from: $0.42 Gigi but more sophisticated than the musical, and the Cat is the story of a man who prefers his cat to his wife-- with good reason! Smart and elegant.
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 | All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat by Suzy Becker
Buy used from: $0.01 "Make Your Own Hours." "Avoid Company You Do Not Like." Oh, yes! Wise and witty.
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| Suddenly--A Witch! by Irene. Bowen
Buy used from: $3.98 a girl's cat helps her attend a Halloween party-- invisibly! Fun and sweet.
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 | Fur Person by May Sarton
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $0.01 a wonderful author's homage to one cat in particular and all cats in general. (I still use the phrase a "cat of peace"). Lovely.
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 | Thomasina by Paul Gallico
Buy used from: $2.70 The Disney movie is good, but this novel is better. It's not even really a children's novel-- it is as much about the grieving father as the little girl in her cat. Beautiful!
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 | The Devil on the Road by Robert Westall
Buy used from: $37.94 In which a cat called "News" has time-traveling properties, but is described with such care and attention (never cutesy). Great book!
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 | All My Patients are Under the Bed by Dr. louis J. Camuti
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 A lovely memoir from a cat veterinarian. Some sad, some funny, all touching!
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| Me and Emily and the cat by Doris Orgel
Buy used from: $0.01 about sibling rivalry, and how a kitten can contribute-- and help.
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 | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 So much wittier than the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical that used the lyrics. Rhythmic, funny and endearing.
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 | Why Cats Do That: A Collection of Curious Kitty Quirks by Karen Anderson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Lovely line-drawings and some good info (most you probably already know if you read cat books for fun, but the prose is sharp). a lovely coffee-table book.
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 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Buy used from: $0.01 we were read this in grade school and I've never forgotten it. Pulls at the heart-strings (but isn't just a weeper).
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