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Millions of Cats
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Millions of Cats (1928) (edit title/settings)

by Wanda Gág (Author, Illustrator) (edit contributors)

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Millions of Cats is a wonderful tale of vanity versus humility, written and illustrated by the singular Wanda Gag. An old man and his wife decide to get a cat, so the old man goes out in search of the prettiest cat of all. When he is forced to choose from "hundreds, thousands, millions and... read more

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  • “The very old woman saw them coming. "My dear!" she cried, "What are you doing? I asked for one little cat, and what do I see?...Cats here, cats there, Cats and kittens everywhere...we can never feed them all..." The very old man <said>, "What shall we do?" The very old woman thought...then she said, "...We will let the cats decide which one we should keep."...the very old man...called to the cats, "Which one of you is the prettiest?"...And they <the cats> began to quarrel...after a while the noise stopped and the very old man and the very old woman peeped out...to see what had happened. They could not see a single cat! In <the grass> sat one little frightened kitten...It was thin and scraggly...The old man said, "How does it happen that you were not eaten up with all those...cats?"...I'm just a very homely little cat...so when you asked who was the prettiest, I didn't say anything. So nobody bothered about me."”
  • “Hundreds of cats, Thousands of cats, Millions and billions and trillions of cats.”

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A nice clean house which had flowers all around it, except where the door was.
  • A hill: A hill which was quite covered with cats

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Once upon a time there was a very old man and a very old woman.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Wanda Gág (Author)
  2. Wanda Gág (Illustrator)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1928
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Page Count: 32

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Reading Level: Ages 4-8

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  • Book a Day Blog: The Wise Owl Factory Book a Day Blog entry on MILLIONS OF CATS has some information about this book and a free 5 page PDF of different kinds of cats for a bulletin board display. FREE

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