CATalog Samples, part I

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Hardly any of my books are cat-less. It all started

when Jane Flory asked me to illustrate her rollicking 

cat tale, We'll Have A Friend For Lunch.

My first picture book. Not too sure what I was doing, 

made a full color dummy and sent it to Jane's publisher, 

Houghton Mifflin Co. in Boston. A very patient and 

humorous Walter Lorraine taught me color separation 

over the telephone and that my 38 page dummy needed 

to become 32 pages.

As author as well as illustrator, in Too Many Babas,
my first I Can Read book for Harper, I gave Baba 
Edis a cat. While the Babas are making soup, the 
cat is otherwise occupied in the pictures only.

Lee Bennett Hopkins supplied the how, what, where, 
when and who poems in QUESTIONS, another Harper 
I Can Read book. Lots of places for cats. This one 
accompanying the poem What Do I Make? by Ilo Orleans.

My, oh, my, watching Grandma make SWEET POTATO 
PIE, from Anne Rockwell's delectable singsong early Step 
Into Reading book for Random House.

Caterina and Pavel wishing for a child of their own, 

see that even the Cat has kittens from THE LITTLE 

SNOWGIRL, my retelling of an old Russian tale for 

Tomie De Paola's Whitebird imprint at Putnam.

The Farmer and his cat hear something spooky. 

From Tony Johnston's very clever/funny/not so 

scary Halloween ghost story for early readers, 

BOO, A Story That Could Be True at Scholastic.

Sometimes a little cat just wants to be there.

From FINGERPLAYS AND SONGS FOR 

THE VERY YOUNG, (which my brother Ted 

calls, "The Patty Cake Book") illustrating

Ride A Horse To Boston, another for Random

House.

Bob Barton's retelling of Paul Gallico's sweet 

story about a boy and his Donkey, THE SMALL 

MIRACLE, Henry Holt. No cats in the story. 

But that never stopped me. That's why there's 

a cat, who looks a lot like Tizzy, watching 

from the window.

 

There are lots of farm animals in THE THREE 

BROTHERS, my retelling of a German folk tale,

Whitebird/Putnam again. Here is the cat witnessing 

the magic of the ending along with the Father 

and his sons.

Lastly (for part 1) is this cat looking out the window to

see WHAT WILL THE WEATHER BE, by Linda DeWitt, 

a Let's Read & Find Out book from HarperCollins.

Don't know about you, but after all this,

I need a CAT nap.  =^..^=