BOOKS • LITERATURE • POEMS

MY FAVORITE CAT BOOKS

• Mitsou 40 images by Balthus
  Preface by Rainer Maria Rilke
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (1984)

• The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs  
  Viking Penguin (1992)
  
  
• My Name Is Buddy by Ry Cooder
  listen to the CD: Suitcase in My Hand
  
  
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
  by T. S. Eliot
  Harcort, Brace & World, Inc. (1939)
  

• Varjak Paw   review by SF Said
  Illustrations by Dave McKean   [cover]
  

• The Book of Jones: A Tribute to the Mercurial,
  Manic, and Utterly Seductive Cat
  by Ralph Steadman
  Harcourt (Nov 1997)
  

• The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
  Pantheon Graphic Novels (2005)
  Story 1: The Bar Mitzvah | review

CAT BOOKS

• The History of Dick Whittington,
  Lord Major of London, with the
  the adventers of his cat [ca. 1820]
  Creator: George Cruikshank
  Creator: Allen Robert Branston
  The history of Whittington
  and his cat (ca/ 1830)
  . [ca. 1830 | 1850-60? | 1860-85]
  The Adventrues of Whitltington
  and his cat [1847?]
  . [1847 | ca. 1850]
  The Entertaining History of
  Whittington and His Cat [ca. 1830?]
  
  

• Dame Trot and her cat [188-?]
  anoher copy (1849-68)
  
  
• "The Wild Cat of Europe [1896]
  Author: Edward Hamilton, M.D.
  read book online
  
  
• The story of a cat [ca. 1878]
  Author: Emile de la Bedolliere
  
  
• Cat Stories [1886]
  Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
  
  

• The cat's elegy [1913]
  Author: Gelett Burgess
  Author: Burges Johnson
  
  
• The Story of a China Cat [1921]
  Author: Laura Lee Hope (cover)
  
  

• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
  by Lilian Jackson Braun
  Starring Koko and Yum Yum
  Jove Books, NY (1966)
  

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CATS in LITERATURE

Cheshire Cat by Johb Tenniel

• Alice in Wonderland
  . Text by Lewis Carroll
  . Illustrations by John Tenniel
  
  
• The Cat that Walked by Himself
  . Written & illustrated by Rudyard Kipling
  

• Puss in Boots - Le Chat Botte
  . by Charles Perault (French, 1628-1703)
  . "Puss in Boots" illustrators
  
  
• The Black Cat
  . by Edgar Allan Poe

Cat Names Inspired by Literary Cats

LITERARY CATS

LIST OF FICTIONAL CATS

POEMS

I love my little kitty
her coat is so warm.
And if I don't hurt her
She'll do me no harm
I won't pull her tail,
Or drive her away
And kitty and I
Very gently will play.

Mother Goose
Cat Poems

THE LIFE OF JACK SPRAT
HIS WIFE AND CAT [ca. 1810]

DER PANTHER
by
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875-1926)

Poetry for Cats (1994)

 

NONSENSE DROLLERIES
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT [1889]
Illustrations: William Foster
Author: Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Publisher: F. Warne, London; N, Y.
the poem @ cat poetry

 

PINKLE PURR
by
A. A. Milne
(1882-1956)

 

OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
by
T.(homas) S.(terans) Eliot
(1886-1965)

 

UN-JURIED ART EXHIBITIONS STRANGE CATS BLATANT ON THE BACK FENCE ART NOT OF NECESSITY MORE ADMIRABLE             PURRING ON RUGS. Helen West Heller Migratory Urge Wood-cut Poems Chicago, 1928

Helen West Heller
(1872-1955)

 

 

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