Project Gutenberg 2025-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 271 Carrick, Alice van Leer 1875 1961 Van Leer Carrick, Alice Leer Carrick, Alice van Skinner, Alice Carrick Davidson, Bertha G. Keyes, Homer Eaton 1875 1938 07027609 Kitty-cat tales $aBoston :$bLothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., $c1907. 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.) "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.) https://archive.org/details/kittycattales00carr/page/n7/mode/2up 20220528200033carrick 1907 US Reading ease score: 75.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Children's stories Cats -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: American Literature 205456 2025-07-30T07:00:17.339929 text/html 179076 2025-05-28T13:02:48 text/html 4621592 2025-07-30T07:00:25.210887 application/epub+zip 4643676 2025-07-30T07:00:19.462924 application/epub+zip 320289 2025-07-30T07:00:18.264901 application/epub+zip 5459949 2025-07-30T07:00:28.615908 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5425289 2025-07-30T07:00:24.092951 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 160666 2025-07-30T07:00:16.693947 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140709 2025-05-28T13:02:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14894 2025-07-30T07:00:28.808869 application/rdf+xml 16675 2025-07-30T07:00:18.507900 image/jpeg 2728 2025-07-30T07:00:18.385967 image/jpeg 5343607 2025-07-30T07:00:17.482918 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia