Foreword INDIE
2005 GOLD Winner for Pets
Article
Purrfect Books for Cat Lovers
by Hannah Hohman
As any cat person knows, cats and reading go hand in hand. You settle down in your chair, maybe you have a cup of tea beside you, crack open your book with a satisfied sigh, and lo and behold, you’ve got a cat on your lap. Well, your...
Book Review
Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us
Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota have created a cottage industry of cute, with the publication of Lucky Penny in spring 2016, a variety of online projects at their site www.johnnywander.com, and now a thick collection of their autobiographical...
Book Review
Matilda, the Algonquin Cat
This children’s book is imbued with enough sassy depictions of cat mischief and historical details to also interest an adult audience. What the beloved Eloise books are to the Plaza Hotel, "Matilda, the Algonquin Cat" is to the...
Book Review
Cat in the Night
As Gwenn sleeps soundly, her curious cat, Rusty, stalks the neighborhood using all of his feline senses to explore, in Madeleine Dunphy’s "Cat in the Night". Bright stars and flashing eyes flicker across the deep blues and purples of...
Book Review
Ari Figue's Cat
An experiment in poetic prose, nonlinear scenes, and even font style, this novel offers a tale of a vibrant city full of mystery. Ari Figue’s Cat is Jacob Russell’s deep, perplexing novel of finding love in the least likely of...
Book Review
Black Cat 2-1
by Tom Bevier
This moving memoir about the gritty life of a military helicopter pilot fills a gap in the genre of Vietnam literature. In the onslaught of books written about the Vietnam War, there has been endless questioning as to whether it was...
Book Review
The Cat Who Chose to Dream
by Aimee Jodoin
With a foreword by actor George Takei, this poignant portrait of a Japanese American family’s pet cat challenges our willingness to objectively remember the horrors that changed us, as well as our capacity for empathy, optimism, and...