Find Request It

Cover Image

Jenny and the Cat Club a collection of favorite stories about Jenny Linsky

Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Tinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Averill, Esther Holden
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, 2003.
Series:	New York Review children's collection
Subjects:	Cats > Juvenile fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Tinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
Physical Description:	vi, 160 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	1590170474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Esther Averill (1902-1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for her local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College in 1923, she moved first to New York City and then to Paris, where she founded her own publishing company. The Domino Press introduced American readers to artists from all over the world, including Feodor Rojankovsky, who later won a Caldecott Award. In 1941, Esther Averill returned to the United States and found a job in the New York Public Library while continuing her work as a publisher. She wrote her first book about the red-scarfed, mild-mannered cat Jenny Linsky in 1944, modeling its heroine on her own shy cat. Esther Averill would eventually write twelve more tales about Miss Linsky and her friends (including the I Can Read Book, The Fire Cat ), each of which was eagerly awaited by children all over the United States (and their parents, too).