The cat who went to heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1931. On January 1, 2026, the novel entered the public domain in the USA. The story is about a penniless Japanese artist and a calico cat his housekeeper brings home. The storyline is supposedly based on an old Buddhist folk tale, and includes, as asides, a short
telling of the Buddha's life, and brief accounts of some of the Buddha's previous lifetimes as animals, as in the Jataka tales. At the end of each of the eight chapters is one of the housekeeper's songs, her insightful commentary on what is happening. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)
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| Author | Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 |
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| Illustrator | Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985 |
| Title | The cat who went to heaven |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1930, reprint 1931. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Went_to_Heaven |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Summary |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1931. On January 1, 2026, the novel entered the public domain in the USA. The story is about a penniless Japanese artist and a calico cat his housekeeper brings home. The storyline is supposedly based on an old Buddhist folk tale, and includes, as asides, a short telling of the Buddha's life, and brief accounts of some of the Buddha's previous lifetimes as animals, as in the Jataka tales. At the end of each of the eight chapters is one of the housekeeper's songs, her insightful commentary on what is happening. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Animals -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Religious fiction |
| Subject | Cats -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Artists -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Buddhism -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Japan -- History -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78393 |
| Release Date | Apr 8, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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