02889cam a22003373u 4500 77183 UtSlPG 20260610134804.0 m cr n 260607r20251906utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PN Werner, Edgar S., -1919 Cats and kittens Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Werner's readers and recitations, no. 35 Release date is 2025-11-05 Charlene Taylor, Linda Cantoni, 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.) "Cats and kittens" by Edgar S. Werner is a collection of readings and recitations written in the early 20th century. It gathers poems, short tales, songs, fables, and “action” pieces about felines, many with music, tableaux, and staging notes for schoolrooms, parlors, and amateur theatricals. Expect a playful, sentimental, and often instructive celebration of cats and kittens designed for young performers and family audiences. The opening of the collection frames it as a staged entertainment: a playful “Opening Address” has children pretending to be cats, followed by “Tootsy Wootsy,” a kitten-loving recitation presented in dialect and in standard English, complete with a foreword and detailed pose-by-pose directions for a child and a live kitten. It then shifts into a mix of pieces that model the book’s range: a heartwarming story (“Homeliest Cat at the Show,” in which a tenement girl’s homely rescue cat wins a prize), brief informative and moral items contrasting cats and dogs and explaining feline habits, interactive action-poems with movement cues (“The Cats’ Tea Party,” “The Cat That Came to School”), classic rhymes with music (“Ding Dong Bell”), and gentle essays and tales (from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s lesson on kitten “pins” to a rescue vignette where a streetwise cat earns a ribbon). The sequence closes this early stretch with livelier set pieces, including a “Dick Whittington” song-and-tableaux and a comic dialect monologue about the black cat, underscoring the volume’s performative, family-friendly spirit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1906 Cats -- Literary collections Werner's readers and recitations, no. 35 https://archive.org/details/catskittens35wern/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77183 117904 117904