These pages are copyright © Martin Benson 1999-2021. This book is no longer in print in either the US or the UK, However, second-hand editions are reasonable easy to find - and it is not difficult to find quite nice first editions.

Adventures wait around every corner for the two new friends, as Jennie teaches Peter all about life as a cat. Paul Gallico is an acute observer of the tricks that cats get up to (see The Silent Miaow).Ī lengthy extract of this book can be found in a nice book called The Personality of the Cat, published by Crown in the US in 1958. At the National Library of Israel, you can find information on Paul Gallico (1897-1976) and view a variety of items related to the topic such as manuscripts. The world is a dangerous place for him, but luckily he is rescued and befriended by Jennie, a kindly stray tabby who has been abandoned by her owners. He was a prolific and eclectic writer - powerful adventure tales like 'Poseidon Down' made his success - and with this seemingly trivial 'cat story' one might get the impression that he 'throttled back'. Even if you do not like cats, you will probably enjoy this - if you do, then you will relish the details. Paul Gallico was a reporter in Nazi-Germany in the '30s and knows how to state a thought with clarity and immediacy. ( 'When in doubt - wash!') The book is a chronicle of their adventures. A classic feline fairytale set in England about a boy who transforms into a cat following a tragic incident-from the author of The Snow Goose and Mrs. To his considerable astonishment, when he recovers, he is not a young boy, but a cat! Fortunately, he meets Jennie, a cat who had been abandoned by her family when they moved away (hence the US title), who educates him in the wiles of the feline world. The unforgettable adventures of a small boy changed into a stray cat and befriended by the indomitable Jennie, the cat who initiates him into the lore of. This is the story of a young boy called Peter, who is knocked down by a car.

The abandoned by paul gallico