Great Cats: The Who's Who of Famous Felines

by J.C. Suares

To delight every cat lover, here's a wonderful collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, cartoons, little-known facts and fascinating stories about the world's most famous real and fictional cats.

You'll find everything you ever wanted to know about all the cats you ever loved, from Morris the finicky cat-food critic to Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire Cat — and Mehitable, Don Marquis' fast-living alley cat to claimed to have been Cleopatra in a previous life.

You'll learn the intimate details about Cardinal Richelieu's cats, the cat who became the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the cat who co-starred with Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. An in this ultimate cat book, you'll discover who are the world's oldest, richest and fattest cats — and much, much more!

122 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1981

About the author

Jean-Claude Suàres (March 30, 1942 – July 30, 2013) was an artist, illustrator, editor, and creative consultant to many publications, and the first Op-Ed page art director at The New York Times.

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Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of real & fictional felines, with some illustrations & photos, some including a bit of their story. Some made me feel sad tho: a cat “actor” who was notoriously difficult to work with (probably because he doesn’t like it?), a cat famous for giving birth to over 400 kittens over her lifetime, a cat famous for being morbidly obese (& the person holding her in the photo is smiling like it’s funny that she’s been neglected/abused to the point of putting her life & health in danger).