My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat
A child lays claim to a cat through an escalating series of adjectives, and the cat declines to acknowledge any of them.
A 1963 picture book about a child insisting on ownership of a cat that has other ideas, written by an author who also produced serious theology and a history of the hospice movement. The comedy sits in the escalating adjectives of the title, and in the cat complete indifference to all of them.
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Maria Popova
In 1963, two years before she composed her iconic ode to friendship, the prolific children’s book author, theologian, and novelist Sandol Stoddard (December 16, 1927–January 4, 2018) took up this fundamental challenge of connection in her playful and poignant book My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat (public library).
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