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Books in the Cats genre:

Wanda Gag’s Story Book (1932)

This volume includes Millions of Cats, The Funny Thing and Snippy and Snappy.

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

Doctor Dolittle’s Return (1933)

Doctor Dolittle makes his triumphant return from his visit to the moon.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

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

Whiffy McMann (1933)

The story of a girl and her kitten.

Bluebonnets For Lucinda (1934)

Lucinda live on an island of the coast of Texas and comes to the mainland when the bluebonnets are in bloom.

Author(s): Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Doctor Dolittle’s Birthday Book (1935)

Each page contains a quotation and picture from the Doctor Dolittle books and space to record birthday reminders.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Peter and Gretchen of Old Nuremberg (1935)

Two children living with their cat in Bavaria.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Viola M. Jones
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

When the Wind Blew (1937)

An old woman who lives by the sea takes comfort in her seventeen cats.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Rosalie Slocum

Buttons (1938)

After experiencing a tough neighborhood growing up, an alley cat finally finds a home.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Tom Robinson
Illustrator(s): Peggy Bacon

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938

The Cat and the Kitten (1940)

Minnie’s kittens find homes with nearby families, but Timmy stays with her and has a winter adventure.

Smoky and Pinocchio (1940)

The adventures of Pinocchio the puppet and Smoky the cat.

Author(s): Helene Carter
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)

A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.

Author(s): Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s): Rojan

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

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1941

Bells of the Harbor (1941)

Heavy fog on New Year's Eve and if Dirk had not heard the cry of Jan's cat, all the men from the wrecked Norwegian ship might have drowned. Dirk and Jan share many adventures on land, preparing to become fishermen, but first they must overcome the vo... View More

Author(s): Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Cat That Walked by Himself (1942)

How the cat made a bargain with the Woman, but still walks by himself.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Merry Shipwreck (1942)

While Captain Barnacle is away, the mice set his barge adrift. Read online at archive.org.  This is the later edition. ... View More

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Night and Day (1942)

There were once two cats, one white and one black - one who loved the day and one who loved the night. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Leonard Weisgard

Animal Stories (1944)

Forty-six original stories featuring our animal friends. Some editions have only thirty-six stories.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Animal Stories #8008 (1944)

Original stories featuring our animal friends. This is a later edition with about half as many stories. It is a Big not a Giant Little Golden Book.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

A Treasury of Cat Stories (1944)

An anthology of cat stories from the masters - Wodehouse, Seton, Saki - and the not so well-known.... View More

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