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list price: $19.95
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
category: Children's Fiction
published: Sep 2003
ISBN:9781551432472
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

You Can't Rush a Cat

by Karleen Bradford, illustrated by Leslie Elizabeth Watts

tagged: cats
Description

Jessicaís grandfather is eager to meet the wild little cat who streaks into the house and hides in the basement, but Jessica knows that it takes great patience to woo a cat. She waits and waits and then, near the end of her visit, she sits down in the middle of the kitchen floor and puts to work all her knowledge of felines. When she goes home, her grandfather has a new friend.

About the Authors

Karleen Bradford

Karleen Bradford is the beloved, award-winning author of many novels. Though her first book was not published until she was forty, the same year she became a pilot and a scuba diver, Karleen cannot remember a time when she didn't write. In grade four her friends whispered desperately to one another, "Run! Hide! Karleen's written another play and she's going to make us act in it." Karleen grew up in Argentina, then lived all over South and Central America and Europe as the wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She now lives and writes in Owen Sound, Ontario, with her husband, Jim, and a gentle gia

Leslie Elizabeth Watts

Leslie Watts has always loved painting people. After working for twenty years as a children’s book illustrator, she turned to fine art in 2007 and now makes portraits of grown-ups for houses and museums. She lives in Stratford, Ontario. She also collaborated with Sheree Fitch on If I Were the Moon.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
0 to 7
Grade:
p to 2
Reading age:
4 to 8

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