Annie M. G. Schmidt, Author, Lance Salway, Translator, Kay Sather, Illustrator Milkweed Editions $6.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-57131-600-4
Minnie, once a cat, has suddenly--and inexplicably--become a young woman. But she still purrs, climbs trees, rubs up against people and generally acts like a feline. Minnie's sister turns up her tail and her aunt scolds her (``How on earth did it...
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Annie M.G. Schmidt, trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer, read by Katherine Kellgren. Listening Library, , unabridged, 4 CDs, 4 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-0-14-752099-9
This story is delightfully quirky, with touches of madcap action, and narrator Kellgren is perfectly matched to the tale. Mr. Tibble is a newspaper reporter who only writes about cats. His editor tells Tibble he needs to begin reporting some harder...
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Annie M.G. Schmidt, trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer. Delacorte, $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-553-53500-6
In this delightfully quirky story from the late Dutch author Schmidt (1911–1995), which was originally published in the Netherlands in 1970, a timid, feline-obsessed reporter is about to lose his job for filing stories on cats instead of more...
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