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Cats Genre
Books in the Cats genre:
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Millions of Cats (1928)
The Three Little Kittens (1928)
Three kittens get in trouble with their mother over their mittens.
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Angus and the Cat (1931)
Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus’s food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along?
Author(s):
Marjorie Flack
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
The Story of Little Black Sambo (1933)
A moveable version of the famous story of the little boy who outwits the tigers and has pancakes and butter as his reward.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Buttons (1938)
After experiencing a tough neighborhood growing up, an alley cat finally finds a home.
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Author(s):
Tom Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Peggy Bacon
The King and the Princess (1940)
The story of a friendship between a dog and a cat with a wooden leg.
Author(s):
Jack O’Brien
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
April’s Kittens (1941)
April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?
Author(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Bells of the Harbor (1941)
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Greylock and the Robins (1946)
Author(s):
Tom Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Shy Little Kitten (1946)
A shy, striped kitten explores the farm with a mole and a puppy and goes on a picnic with the other animals.
Author(s):
Cathleen Schurr
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Seaweed Hat (1947)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Little Leopard and His Fat Stomach (1948)
The father leopard gets his nose slapped by the porcupine’s tail, but the little leopard finds a nice bone, with the meat still on it.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
My Father’s Dragon (1948)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
The Tiger Kitten’s Poor, Poor Tail (1948)
The baby tiger was exploring and got stuck in a hollow log.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Cowboy Kitten (1949)
Theodore kitten pays a visit to his grandmother, but grandfather really understands him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Dig for a Treasure (1949)
A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Mouse’s House (1949)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Freddy the Cowboy (1950)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1951)
When a mouse family finds a helpless, homeless, newborn kitten, they decide to adopt him, name him Mickey, and raise him as one of their own. They don't tell him that he's actually a cat.
Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams