Carrick, Alice van Leer 1875-1961 creator Davidson, Bertha G. Keyes, Homer Eaton 1875-1938 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Kitty-cat tales" by Alice van Leer Carrick is a collection of children's stories written in the early 20th century. Framed by a lonely girl named Dolly and her talking kitten Impty, it offers cat-centered fairy tales, fables, and folk retellings shared night by night. The tone is cozy and moral, with whimsical adventures and gentle humor told in a classic, read-aloud style. The opening of this collection finds Dolly, left with strict Miss Jane while her parents are away, comforted by Impty, a black kitten who speaks and promises a new “Kitty-Cat tale” each night. First comes The White Cat, where a prince aided by a mysterious feline wins three trials and frees an enchanted princess. Next is the Japanese tale The King of the Field-Mice, rewarding a kind gardener while punishing a greedy neighbor. The Discontented Cat shows a cottage cat, dazzled by palace luxury and bullied by a lapdog, learning home is best. In The Cat Who Married a Mouse, a tom’s lies—Top-off, Half-Gone, All-Gone—end in betrayal and the mouse’s demise. Mother Michel and Her Cat follows Moumouth through a steward’s plots (drowning, poison, coercion) to a joyful return and the villain’s downfall. Two brief fables—Venus and the Cat and The Cat and the Fox—stress that nature doesn’t change and one sure trick beats a hundred vain ones. The excerpt closes as Dick Whittington begins: Dick finds work in London, sends his cat on a trading ship, nearly runs away, but the Bow Bells call him back just as the ship reaches a foreign court. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-05-28 Carla Foust, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1907 Children's stories Cats -- Juvenile fiction PZ Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1907 07027609 https://archive.org/details/kittycattales00carr/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76176 https://archive.org/details/kittycattales00carr/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76176 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134749.0 76176