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| Original Title: | Jennie |
| ISBN: | 0140019421 (ISBN13: 9780140019421) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Paul Gallico
Paperback | Pages: 235 pages Rating: 4.3 | 1439 Users | 185 Reviews
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| Title | : | Jennie |
| Author | : | Paul Gallico |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 235 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Animals. Cats. Childrens |
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'Been crying since the third chapter - just one of the most touching nevels I've read. Paul Gallico, being a great cat-lover, has described their habits and behavior so well (except that part of cleaning under the chin:)) that I would feel like being a cat if I wasn't one already:)Not your average children's book - easy to understand, it is not primitive, and being so saturated with sincere emotion...
Amazing how Gallico shows the world with the eyes of an eight-year boy who turns into a cat, and lives as a cat, and matures as a cat, and fights as a cat and dies as such - to win his life back and become better. To learn pity for those unwanted, for those crying in the cold rain while no one cares for them.
If I ask you - are you a good person, you'll answer - yes. If you read this book and I ask again - I hope you'll answer "I will become one, I promise".
5 out of 5. I love this. Bless Gallico, he made me a better person. He made the cat in me love people.
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Ratings: 4.3 From 1439 Users | 185 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books Jennie
I got Paul Gallico's 'Jennie' a few years back, because the story looked beautiful, but somehow never got around to reading it. I finally decided a couple of days back that I should take it down from the bookshelf and give it the love it deserved. In Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', a man gets up in the morning and discovers that he has been transformed into a giant bug. What happens to him and how he handles that transformation forms the rest of the story. It is dark and bleak. Kafka seems toI read this book some 15 years ago and enjoyed it so much that I am now reading it again, this time aloud (trying to do the accents indicated) as a bedtime story for my son. Highly recommend it! It's even better than I remembered.
This is the unusual story of a young boy living in London, who likes cats, and through a strange set of circumstances becomes one. Paul Gallico weaves a feline tale of adventure and love that tends to feel very real when reading it, but of course it couldnt happen, could it?Wonderfully written with lots of detail. The New York Review Childrens Collection, Copyright 1950.
'Been crying since the third chapter - just one of the most touching nevels I've read. Paul Gallico, being a great cat-lover, has described their habits and behavior so well (except that part of cleaning under the chin:)) that I would feel like being a cat if I wasn't one already:)Not your average children's book - easy to understand, it is not primitive, and being so saturated with sincere emotion...Amazing how Gallico shows the world with the eyes of an eight-year boy who turns into a cat, and
This book is fantastic. It's extremely well written and understands cats, but it also understands emotions and complex feelings of people who turn into cats and their relationships with cats who were born that way.
Little did I know when a friend (thanks, Kendall!) loaned me this book, that I already was aware of some of the author's work. Paul Gallico was a well-known sports writer in the 1920s and 1930s, working for the New York Daily News. His sportswriting career took off when he asked to spar with Jack Dempsey (and wrote the account of how it felt to be knocked out by him!). He also wrote about catching Dizzy Dean's fastball and golfing with Bobby Jones. He retired from sports writing after selling a
This book's title in the UK is "Jennie". It's a delightful tale about a little boy who sort of becomes a cat and is taught how to behave like one by a wandering feline. This is one book I've re-read and might do so again. I lent it to a Brit friend and he did have one negative comment: "Come, come, now, Mr Gallico -- since when has Glasgow been the capital of Scotland and Edinburgh 'Provincial'? Otherwise he loved the book. One memorable piece of advice about Cat behaviour -- "When in doubt,
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