Runaway Molly Midnight

by Herman Maril and Nadja Maril

Molly, the perfect cat model, takes it into her head to run away and discovers among the sand dunes and rainbows of Provincetown the secret ingredient of Herman's paintings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916144623
• ISBN13: 9780916144623
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Stemmer House Publishers
• Length: 25 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

An engaging story some very genuine insights into viewing, learning and cherishing the painter's art

Usually noted for their series of outstanding pattern and motif art books, Stemmer House is also the publisher of Nadja Maril's charmingly little story of Runaway Molly Midnight: The Artist's Cat. Nicely enhanced with paintings and drawings by her father Herman Maril (some of whose paintings of Molly the cat hang in museums), this is the charming story (as told by the cat herself!) of being a house cat who wants to go out into the world to see what her artist master Herman has painted for herself. Somewhere out there must be a house like that in all those watercolor and oil painting!. So one fine summer day, and without any concern for the worry she would cause her family, off goes Molly Midnight into that world where she unexpectedly encounters some rather saucy butterflies, slithery snakes, superstitious people, an airplane ride, hunger, homesickness, and in the process, discovers the secret of a painter's art. Actually based on the story of a real household cat, Nadja Maril has deftly woven into an engaging story some very genuine insights into viewing, learning and cherishing the painter's art.