Status Updates From Millions of Cats

Fugity7

Life without a drawing mood is miserable, miserable, miserable.
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I believe it is just the modern children who need [fairy tales]
since their lives are already over-balanced on the side of steel
and stone and machinery.

Cats here, cats there,
Cats and kittens everwhere
Hundreds of cats,
Thousands of cats,
Millions and billions and trillions of cats

"Beauty at the heart of all life is the keynote to the
work of Wanda Gag and the source of its power,
whether expressed in one of her memorable prints
or in an intimate picture of the home of the very
old man in MILLIONS OF CATS. Clear memory
of her own happy childhood and a kinship with
all children made her respect their intelligence, and
gave them at once ease and joy in her company.''
Anne Carroll Moore

Wow, this is the kind of children's book that could NOT be marketed towards children today, given how divorced we are from nature and death...and given how coddled and cosseted children are today.

So excited I found this book at a yard sale today. It's one of the most memorable I had as a kid and still delightfully grotesque! I love the yellow cover and the black and white illustrations inside. Not sure what kind of lesson to take from it, if at all, but the page where all the cats take a sip of water and the whole pond disappears always leaves an impression on me.