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Inside the Captain's house little Jenny Linsky looked out on the rainy garden and thought gloomily, "Things might be easier if it rained forever. Then I wouldn't have to decide what to do about the Cat Club meeting. Tonight the moon will be up and the Cat Club will meet beneath the maple tree. But I really can't tell my brothers about it. I'll steal away and go to the meeting alone." Jenny loved her adopted brothers dearly: "everything I have inside this house is yours as much as mine," she told them. But the Cat Club was something very special—there she could be different from the way she was at home, just because her family wasn't around.

This is the seventh book about Jenny Linsky, the shy little black cat whom the Atlantic Monthly called "a personality ranking not far below such giants as Peter Rabbit." The story of how Jenny courageously overcomes her feelings of selfishness and actually helps her new brothers, Edward and Checkers, become members of the Cat Club will further endear her to the many readers who already know and love her and is sure to win her many more staunch followers.

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Esther Averill

Esther Averill

1902 - 1992
American
Esther Averill (1902-1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for her local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College in 1923,... See more

Jenny and the Cat Club Reprint

Jenny and the Cat Club
Reprinted in 2003 by The New York Review Children’s Collection
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Includes: The Cat Club, Jenny's First Party, When Jenny Lost Her Scarf, Jenny's Adopted Brothers and How the Brothers Joined the Cat Club.


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Reviews

Plumfield and Paideia

How the Brothers Joined the Cat Club
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
One of Jenny’s new brothers, Checkers, knows how to retrieve a ball. Edward says his talent is writing, but, when it’s time to go to a meeting and ask to join the club, no one has actually seen him write anything. With some prompting from Jenny that any poem he writes for the club ought to shiver their whiskers, Edward dazzles them with “A Poem” about a ghost cat.

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