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Cats Genre
Books in the Cats genre:
The Great Big Animal Book (1950)
Portraits of our animal friends.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Cat Did It (1951)
A boy's rescue of a kitten changes his life.
Author(s):
Brian Fairfax-Lucy
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
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
The Kitten’s Surprise (1951)
When Joan is mean to her new kitten it runs away to the forest.
Author(s):
Nina
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures (1952)
A collection of stories about Doctor Dolittle and his animal friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Olga Michael
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
The Noon Balloon (1952)
A cat travels by balloon to a pine forest where he decides to stay.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
The Children’s Hour Volume 14 (1953)
An anthology of animal stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Finnegan II: His Nine Lives (1953)
Finnie intends to have more than nine lives.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Giant Golden Book of Cat Stories (1953)
A collection of thirty-five stories and poems about cats.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Merry Shipwreck (1953)
While Captain Barnacle is away, the mice set his barge adrift.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (1954)
On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)
The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Mr. Petersand’s Cats (and Kittens) (1954)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Willie’s Adventures (1954)
Willie gets a new pet, tries on his new suit and goes to visit his grandmama.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Carbonel The King of the Cats (1955)
When Rosemary buys a broom so she can earn money doing housework during the holidays, it comes with a royal cat and a spell.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
V. H. Drummond
Seven Stories about a Cat Named Sneakers (1955)
Sneakers is a little black cat with four white paws.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
Captain Kidd’s Cat (1956)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Thomas (1956)
When Frances goes to have her dress made for her first communion she meets a most extraordinary cat.
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Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Cliff Roberts
Where any Young Cat Might Be (1956)
Kitten's mother and father look all over for him and finally find him asleep in Grandmother's lap.
Author(s):
Jane Cummin
Carol Denison
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese