Jennie (Collins Modern Classics)

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You can still remember the plot, the characters are like your best friends or your heroes, even though you're nearly 60. Thrust into a life on the streets, he survives because he meets Jennie, a street smart cat who may hate humans but is willing to mentor the boy.

I also loved the parts where Jennie inducts Peter into the life of a cat and teaches him survival skills.I first read it many years ago when I was in my teens and couldn't resist re-reading it before passing it on. Fortunately, he gets rescued by the eponymous Jennie, a sweet-faced, sweet-natured, intelligent and rather plain fellow stray cat. I felt nostalgic as I read THE ABANDONED, because it has that timeless quality of the other great books of children's literature.

Although the protagonist is a little boy, this is by no means childishly written, nor does it just offer whimsicality about cats. I ADORE them, but have never been owned by them because I rather have to go the route of rescue cats, and few Meezers would find their way to ‘a pile of kittens dumped in a dustbin’ type stories. Paul Gallico anthropomorphises them of course, but there's much in Peter and Jennie that you'll find in real cats.Paul Gallico captured the habits and mannerisms, and just the over-all essence of cats magnificently.

The original series episode that immediately leapt to mind (Tribbles aside) was “The Paradise Syndrome,” in which Kirk loses his memory and lives a peaceful, happy life for months with Miramanee, a pseudo-native-American on an unspoiled planet in the path of an asteroid. I'm glad I finally did get my hands on a copy of this, even though it's later in life than the author probably intended. There is a local one, a complete tart, who has a home but would dearly like to move in here – and probably many other places – but the native residents would sulk massively. Paul Gallico wonders what will happen, if instead of something dark and bleak like a giant bug, a human being gets transformed into something adorable, like a cat. And once I stop crying and hugging my kitten, and apologizing to him for the whole horrible world, I'm going to go find some chocolate.Gilt dulled a little to spine, boards unfaded and clean, spine panel has faded area to base where DJ flapping.

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Of course, maybe I didn't read this book as a child because it does have some very dark, traumatic moments. In short, a boy who yearns for a pet cat, but is not permitted one, suffers an accident, and wakes up to find himself in a cat's body. In Franz Kafka’s ‘ Metamorphosis‘, a man gets up in the morning and discovers that he has been transformed into a giant bug. In fact, I was surprised to see that it was published as late as the 1950s, it seemed so much older than that, downright Victorian in it's mindset.During his stint there, he was sent to cover the training camp of Jack Dempsey, and decided to ask Dempsey if he could spar with him, to get an idea of what it was like to be hit by the world heavyweight champion. When reading dated books, sometimes one must look past certain past held beliefs, that today would be seen as completely wrong-headed and disgusting. I sometimes forgot the protagonist was supposed to be an eight year old, and sometimes it even seemed like the author forgot as well. Above everything, he wants a cat, but as Nanny doesn’t like them and his parents are too occupied with their own concerns to risk upsetting Nanny, Peter’s dearest wish is denied.