Product Description

In Jenny Goes to Sea, Greenwich Village-based black cat Jenny Linsky travels around the world on the good ship Sea Queen with her master, Captain Tinker, and her adopted brothers, tiger cat Edward, and black-and-white cat, Checkers. Once on board, they meet the adventurous ship's cat, Jack Tar.

Leaving New York's harbor, they travel to Africa and Asia, and return through the Panama Canal. At each port they meet a colorful local cat who shows them around. Jenny and her pals have their fortunes told by an Abyssinian cat in Zanzibar, dance the sailor's hornpipe in Singapore with Bobo the Burmese, another ship's cat who was left behind, and float with Siamese cat Dara in a sampan boat on a Bangkok river on a most wonderful adventure. Includes color illustrations throughout

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139477 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-10
• Released on: 2005-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 140 pages

About the Author
Esther Averill (1902–1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for her local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College in 1923, she moved first to New York City and then to Paris, where she founded her own publishing company. The Domino Press introduced American readers to artists from all over the world. In 1941, Esther Averill returned to the United States and found a job in the New York Public Library while continuing her work as a publisher. She wrote her first book about the red-scarfed, mild-mannered cat Jenny Linsky in 1944, modeling its heroine on her own shy cat. Esther Averill would eventually write twelve more tales about Miss Linsky and her friends including the I Can Read Book, The Fire Cat, each of which was eagerly awaited by children all over the United States (and their parents, too).

Customer Reviews

Jenny and Friends' Happy Trip
Copyright 1957. Jenny Linsky goes to sea at a time that was sweller than now, presuming you were a well-birthed white male or knew your place. Jenny knew her place. She has a member of the civilized Cat Club and no stanger to adventure. Look out for mysterious predictions, an epic poem, and the brave deed! Life was simpler then, and, frankly, I occasionally enjoy being spared the social redeeming values of more modern fiction. Pickles the fire cat even makes a cameo appearance. Averill's simple illustrations and charts nicely augment the short novel. A good read. The balance of Esther Averill's work as well as other publications by the New York Review Children's Collection are also worth looking into. Don't miss The Fire Cat. Enjoy.

Loved it!
I read Jenny and the Cat Club as a child, but never found any of the other Jenny books until now. This book did not disappoint! If you are a Jenny fan, this is a must have.

Magical series of books
I came upon the Jenny Linsky books by chance looking for some read aloud books for my three year old grand-daughter. We were both captured by the character of Jenny, the shy but intrepid little cat with the red scarf who joins a community of cats when she is not sharing her life with the Captain, her kind owner. There are old fashioned life lessons to be learned from all these books by Esther Averill, but presented without moralizing, with charm and humor and a sense of life's joyful possibilities. We now have the entire series save one which is out of print, and my grand-daughter, now four, has never tired of the stories of Jenny and her friends, each of whom is defined by some wonderful characteristic. It is clear she identifies with Jenny Linsky (what a terrific name for a cat) and that the books won't wear out their welcome for years - since she will someday read them on her own. These are modest but endearing classics, and the naive drawings that accompany the text are perfect. We are in the middle of Jenny Goes to Sea, the last book I purchased and it does not disappoint.