![]() ![]() She’s now six-and-a-half and the perfect age for it. The book was published in hardcover in 2013 and I bought it for my daughter a little prematurely because it’s about a little girl, magic and cats, which if you are the parent of a certain kind of little girl is all you need to hear. I’ve found such skill in Beverly Cleary’s work, and now again in The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, by Charles De Lint. A children’s book has to move the plot along with every sentence, use every detail, create a perfect balance of scene-setting, emotion and action. It is such a pleasure to experience clean prose and good storytelling when reading books aloud to children (….as anyone who has had to suffer through that godawful Harry Potter aloud probably knows). “You’re a kitten” said a voice from above. Where was her hand? She looked at the rest of herself and saw only a cat’s calico body, as lean and lanky as her own, but covered in fur and certainly not the one she knew. ![]() It was definitely a paw, covered in fur and minus a thumb. ![]() She lifted a paw, licked it, and had just started to clean her face when she realized what she was doing. Lillian woke up and had a long, lazy stretch. ![]()
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