One day, when out with Nanny, Peter sees a kitten across the road and he steps out in front of a coal lorry without looking. Fortunately, he meets Jennie, a cat who had been abandoned by her family when they moved away, who educates him in the wiles of the feline world. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Those that deserve to be read and loved and cherished and sought after both when you're a kid and an adult, in any and every century.

I found Jennie the cat delightful and the descriptions and "whys" behind cat behavior whimsical and accurate. He has many exciting adventures with Jennie – including travelling, as the two stowaway and work passage on a Glasgow steamer.If you love cats and want to understand their psyche more, read this gem of a story, you’ll be forever grateful you did. Particularly as another post by a different blogger, about a book by Beverley Nichols had sent me to my bookshelves in remembrance of a book from childhood by Nichols, about his cats.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.What we were both talking about was Jennie, a novel for children, written in the fifties by Paul Gallico. After a run-in with a local tomcat who gives him a severe beating, he's rescued by Jennie, a bone-thin, scrawny but sweet-tempered tabby cat. Particularly as another post by a different blogger, about a book by Beverley Nichols Kaggsy’sBookish Ramblings had sent me to my bookshelves in remembrance of a book from childhood by Nichols, about his cats. Although Peter comes to think as cat, he also retains his little boy ability to understand human language, and, rather importantly, to read.

J K Rowling also excels at this; she has said her favorite book growing up was Gallico's "Manxmouse. I was sent scurrying to a re-read of this following a chance post by a fellow blogger about fictional books with a cat-focus Interesting Literature.Sounds strange to describe it that way, but it was a wonderful cat story and will be appreciated by anyone who loves cats! This 3rd wave of Penguins has a captivating design, making this brilliant book a real treasure for enthusiasts and collectors alike.