Kitty-cat tales by Alice van Leer Carrick
"Kitty-cat tales" by Alice van Leer Carrick is a collection of children's stories written in the early 20th century. Framed by a lonely girl named Dolly and her talking kitten Impty, it offers cat-centered fairy tales, fables, and folk retellings shared night by night. The tone is cozy and moral, with whimsical adventures and gentle humor told in a classic, read-aloud style. The opening of this collection finds Dolly, left with strict
Miss Jane while her parents are away, comforted by Impty, a black kitten who speaks and promises a new “Kitty-Cat tale” each night. First comes The White Cat, where a prince aided by a mysterious feline wins three trials and frees an enchanted princess. Next is the Japanese tale The King of the Field-Mice, rewarding a kind gardener while punishing a greedy neighbor. The Discontented Cat shows a cottage cat, dazzled by palace luxury and bullied by a lapdog, learning home is best. In The Cat Who Married a Mouse, a tom’s lies—Top-off, Half-Gone, All-Gone—end in betrayal and the mouse’s demise. Mother Michel and Her Cat follows Moumouth through a steward’s plots (drowning, poison, coercion) to a joyful return and the villain’s downfall. Two brief fables—Venus and the Cat and The Cat and the Fox—stress that nature doesn’t change and one sure trick beats a hundred vain ones. The excerpt closes as Dick Whittington begins: Dick finds work in London, sends his cat on a trading ship, nearly runs away, but the Bow Bells call him back just as the ship reaches a foreign court. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Carrick, Alice van Leer, 1875-1961 |
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| Illustrator | Davidson, Bertha G. |
| Illustrator | Keyes, Homer Eaton, 1875-1938 |
| LoC No. | 07027609 |
| Title | Kitty-cat tales |
| Original Publication | Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1907. |
| Credits | Carla Foust, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Children's stories |
| Subject | Cats -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76176 |
| Release Date | May 28, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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