October 15, 2021
The French author of the internationally best-selling The Elegance of the Hedgehog offers this utterly charming tale of a writer at work surrounded by her four beloved cats, who believe they are more than furry companions: "Yes, you got it: in addition to being ordinary cats, we are authentic literary advisors and, as extraordinary as that might seem, this singular quality gives us rights." That's the delightfully wry Kirin, the youngest cat, who tells readers her account of the true story of the writer's desk. When their owner is restless, each cat snuggles in and turns on the purrs; but when the writer's work is not up to par, the cats jump into action, biting, sprawling across, and waving their tails across certain pages. Kirin, Ocha, Mizu, and Petrus take their jobs as writing assistants seriously and believe they're owed more than their three daily bowls of kibble. Barbery's poetic prose and Maria Guitart's enchanting illustrations are an irresistible combination that readers will love to cozy up to and lose themselves in for a moment.
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