Holly: The True Story of a Cat

by Ruth Brown

Book Overview

From a popular author/illustrator, the enchanting story of holly the cat - ideal for Christmas and all year long. She was just a tiny kitten and she was abandoned. Someone found her and gave her to us. Because it was nearly Christmas, we called her Holly. Holly is an abandoned kitten adopted at Christmastime. Shy at first, she slowly gains more and more confidence in her new home. Sweetly, and gently, and sometimes humorously, she quickly becomes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805065008
• ISBN13: 9780805065008
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Too costly for the contents.

Forget it....don'y but it.

A Beautiful Book That My Children Love!

This book is so simple, yet so lovely! "Holly" is the story of a stray kitten found at Christmas time (hence the name "Holly"). Through the illustrations and text we see her grow progessively more comfortable and bold in her new home. Eventually she is a happy, adult cat with two kittens of her own. We see her amusing interactions with her kittens as well as her daily life as a settled, adult cat. This is not a "wordy" book. Each page of this book has a gorgeous, watercolor illustration with a very simple sentence or two. The end of the book features a magnificent two page spread of Holly looking straight at the reader with large, yellow eyes. My children love this book so much that when we found our own abandoned, black cat in a shopping cart one Christmas, they immediately named the kitty "Holly Holly" (despite the fact that he was male!). He too is as special to us as Holly clearly is to the author of this lovely book. I highly recommend this book to cat lovers of all ages!

Beautiful, Simple Book

I found this book telling a simple story with a moving intensity. I have had a cat that touched me as much as Holly did. It's a very nice story.

Touching story, lovely illustrations!

This is a book for cat lovers who appriciate art. It's a simple story of a kitten who grew up to be a mother cat, told with a heart and beautiful sensitive paintings. By the way, Ruth Brown was the illustrator of the James Herriot children books!