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LoveReading4Kids Says
Ten wild habitats, ten wild cats and one domestic cat are dramatically and beautifully illustrated in this unique celebration of the cat. In bold pictures and a simple text, Jackie Morris brings alive Cat who, when asleep in the day, dreams of being all kinds of other cats. Sometimes she’s a lion lounging in the heat of the day; sometimes she’s a cheetah sprinting after prey in the hot desert; sometimes she’s proudly atop a rock in the snowy wastes. Always, Cat is a proud and stupendous creature. With striking pictures throughout that capture the magnificence of all cats in many different settings.
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I am Cat Synopsis
A cat sleeps, curled up in a warm place, and while it sleeps it dreams...of being a tiger, flame cat of the forest; a cheetah - fast as the wind on the African plains; a lion, lounging through the heat of the day, tangled in sunshine on the African savannah; a jaguar, perfectly camouflaged deep in the jungle. And the cat dreams of being a lynx, a puma, a snow leopard, a Scottish wild cat, an Asian fishing cat, and the rare Amur leopard. Finally Cat wakes, a domestic cat again, telling his dreams to the child who is stroking him. Ten wild habitats, ten wild cats and one domestic cat are dramatically and beautifully illustrated in this unique celebration of the cat.
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9781847805232 |
Publication date: |
2nd October 2014 |
Author: |
Jackie Morris |
Publisher: |
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books an imprint of Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd |
Format: |
Paperback |
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Press Reviews
Jackie Morris Press Reviews
Children will love this imaginative story. Marilyn Brocklehurst Bookseller
Cat lovers will only need to look at the illustrations to be seduced. Carousel, Christmas Guide
This is the perfect Christmas gift for cat lovers anywhere. Miaow! Pirotta blog
Exotic and exhilarating. Armadillo
ravishing paintings Sunday Telegraph
The scale, the richness of colour, the composition of each illustration is marvellous, fabulous. Playing by the Book
illustrations...are delicate and beautiful...and the poetry of her words just sparkles ABC Magazine
Beautiful Your Cat
This unique celebration of cats is not only a beautiful work of art for young children to enjoy, it is also extremely well researched and very informative. IBBY Link
An unique celebration of the cat in a beautifully illustrated book... With simple yet beautiful text, this book is perfect for cat-lovers and art-lovers alike. Daily Post (North Wales)
Jackie Morris' distinctive artwork brings these multiple cat personalities to life in the way that only she can. The sweeping, lyrical text adds even more movement to the pictures and draws the reader into the cat's sweet reverie. A bewitching book and a must for cat loving children. The Book Corner
The superb illustrations show every intricate detail of each cat in its own habitat ... so that you feel you are on safari watching the real thing, utterly mesmerised, feeling the fierce heat of the plains or the chill of the Russian winter. School Librarian
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About Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris is a bestselling writer and artist. Her almost uncanny ability to draw and paint living landscapes and wildlife began around the age of six when she watched her father draw a lapwing and wanted to learn the same magic. Born in Birmingham, she grew up in Evesham, but has lived for a long time in Wales, in “a small cottage held together by spiders’ webs”.
As a writer and illustrator she has many books to her name; of which The Lost Words, in collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, is the best known. For Otter-Barry Books she has written, among others, the three much-loved Mrs Noah books, The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes and Something About a Bear.
Her internationally bestselling picture books for Frances Lincoln are Ted Hughes’ How the Whale Became; Mariana and the Merchild; The Snow Leopard; Can You See a Little Bear?; The Snow Whale; Lord of the Forest; as well as those she has both written and illustrated, The Seal Children; The Time of the Lion; Little One We Knew You’d Come; Tell Me a Dragon; The Cat and the Fiddle: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes; The Ice Bear. She has also written and illustrated a critically acclaimed novel for older children, East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
In 2019 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustration of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane. In her acceptance speech, Jackie Morris, said: “The times ahead are challenging. It seems to me that artists, writers, musicians have one job at the moment – to help to tell the truth about what is happening to this small and fragile world we inhabit, to re-engage with the natural world, to inspire and to imagine better ways to live. Because there is no Planet B and we are at a turning point. And because in order to make anything happen it first needs to be imagined. And as writers and illustrators for children we grow the readers and thinkers of the future.
“I’m learning so much as I watch our young people call politicians to account. Together we can make a change. And we must. While politicians nod and pretend to listen to Greta Thunberg, declare Climate Emergencies, then continue with ‘business as usual’ finding money always for bombs and seldom for books we need to stand beside these children and hold our deceitful leaders to account.”
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