Arvydas Kazdailis, 1963Takeo Takei 武井 武雄 (1894 – 1983) Japan for Kodomo no Kuni c 1922*Fraidy Cat by Sara Asheron and John HuehnergarthWOELEWIPPIE ONDERWEG (1960) Fiep Westendorp catRoger DuvoisinArnold Lobel from Whiskers & Rhymes, published 1985Billy Fishbone And Other Sea Stories by Martin Waddell, Illustrated By Reg Cartwright, Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1994Jorsh Peña Jazz for CatsCreated with Midjourney using the prompt: cats in disguise, bauhaus styleA Cat’s Guide To The Night SkyBernard Kliban (1935-1990)There Once was a Cat by Cheryl Pelavin 1969Cat Hater’s Handbook 1963Poster-by-Dutch-artist-Koen-van-Os-1910–1983-cat-milkRonald-Searles-Cats-1967-Cat-of-a-thousand-disguises-concealing-itself-as-a-rugChristmas-Card-Edward-Gorey-1925-2000-cat-skatingAlbert Dubout, French painter and illustrator (1905-1976)
Comic Curious Cats, pictures by Martin Leman, words by Angela Carter (published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1979)
Le Chat (1979) by Andre Franquin (1924-1997)Roy McKie, illustration from Bennett Cerf’s Book of Animal Riddles, 1964unknown artist but this is a very David Hockney-ish cat
The first in a funny new series from former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen and rising star Robert Starling. This kitten may look cute and cuddly, but better beware: they’re angry. Really angry. Angry, angry, angry! And this isn’t any old “angry”. This is a jump-up-and-down, roll-on-the-ground kind of angry. This is a spider-scaring, tiger-scaring kind of angry. This is a burst-balloon-ing, SQUASH-THE-MOON-ING kind of angry…
As surreal as things may get, this is also the kind of angry that parents of toddlers will recognize – a bad mood which comes out of nowhere, escalates wildly, then disappears as suddenly as it arrived. Based on the popular poem from A Great Big Cuddle, I Am Angry combines Michael Rosen’s brilliant rhymes and anarchic imagination, Robert Starling’s perfect knack for character and a reassuring message: anger may feel overpowering, but it doesn’t last for ever.
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
