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Clare Turlay Newberry (April 10, 1903 – February 12, 1970) [1] was an American writer and illustrator of 17 published children's books, who achieved fame for her drawings of cats, the subject of all but three of her books. [1] Four of her works were named Caldecott Honor Books.
The meek kitten also befriends a frisky black puppy, and manages to return to her mother and sisters in time to join them and all of her new friends on a picnic. After a rather comedic incident involving the frog being stung by a bee and all of the attendants dining at the picnic winding up leaping into a nearby pond to safety, the kitten ...
The Study for the Madonna of the Cat is currently held at the British Museum in London under inventory number 1856,0621.1. [1] [2] The creative and scientific processes underlying the drawing Madonna of the Cat have been discussed by many art historians, including Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp, Carmen Bambach and Larry Feinberg. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The word "kitten" derives from the Middle English word kitoun, which in turn came from the Old French chitoun or cheton. [1] Juvenile big cats are called "cubs" rather than kittens; either term (but usually more commonly "kitten") may be used for the young of smaller wild felids, such as ocelots, caracals, and lynxes.
In 1956, he and his then-wife Jeanne Baldwin co-authored a children's book titled Little Kitten, Big World, [2] featuring a Siamese kitten named Simmy. In 1963, he photographed another of his Siamese kittens, Sassy, [ 1 ] in various acrobatic poses, including the "chin up" on the bamboo pole that would later be used for the "Hang in There, Baby ...
Cat and Bird is a painting by Swiss German painter Paul Klee, created in 1928. It was made when Klee was a teacher at the Bauhaus Dessau. The painting depicts the wide face of a stylized cat with a small bird perched on its forehead. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. [1]
A segment of Feed the Kitty in which an apparently "inconsolable" Marc Antony believes that Pussyfoot has been turned into a cookie (and unaware that the kitten is actually perfectly safe), was the subject of a homage in the 2001 Pixar film Monsters, Inc. in which Sulley believes that a little human girl he is protecting has fallen into a trash ...
Bad Kitty is a series of American children's books by Nick Bruel, about a housecat named Kitty, who often wreaks havoc about her owner's home. The first book, Bad Kitty, [2] was a picture book, published in 2005, and featured Kitty encountering foods and doing activities categorized by the alphabet.