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Jenny Goes to Sea Hardcover - 2005

by Esther Averill; Esther Averill (Illustrator)

Greenwich Village-based black cat Jenny Linsky sails around the world on the "Sea Queen" with her master, Captain Tinker, and her adopted brothers, tiger cat Edward, and black-and-white cat, Checkers, and the ship's adventurous cat, Jack Tar. Full color.


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In Jenny Goes to Sea, our heroine makes her passage on the good ship Sea Queen with her master, Captain Tinker, and her adopted brothers, tiger cat Edward, and black-and-white cat Checkers. Once on board, they meet the adventurous ship's cat, Jack Tar. Leaving New York's harbor, the friends travel to Africa and Asia, and return through the Panama Canal. At each port they meet a colorful local cat who shows them around. Jenny and her pals have their fortunes told by an Abyssinian cat in Zanzibar; dance the sailor's hornpipe with Bobo the Burmese, another ship's cat who was left behind, in Singapore; and float with Siamese cat Dara in a sampan boat on a Bangkok river--a truly exotic adventure. Ages 6 & up

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  • Title Jenny Goes to Sea
  • Author Esther Averill; Esther Averill (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 140
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, NY
  • Date 2005-06-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781590171554 / 1590171551
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.34 x 0.59 in (22.71 x 16.10 x 1.50 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 09 years
  • Grade levels K - 4
  • Library of Congress subjects Cats, Ocean travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004029981
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"We never can get enough of Jenny, one of our favorite literary cats. She has style, verve, and the gentlest way of having a good time.  We welcome heartily the account of her trip around the world." —New York Herald Tribune

"Part of what makes Jenny so appealing is that her emotional trials and triumphs mirror those of the preschool and school-age set as they work to behave, to make and keep friends, or to adjust to the arrival of a new sibling....The other part is that although the cats are in many ways anthropomorphized, Averill's details are careful and concrete. For example, the cats talk among themselves and can ice skate and dance and drive, but they must communicate with humans like any ordinary cat, by rubbing against their legs or looking beseechingly into their eyes." —Orlando Sentinel

Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2006, Page 59
  • Ingram Children's Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 34
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 06/20/2005, Page 79

About the author

Esther Averill (1902-1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for her local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College in 1923, she moved first to New York City and then to Paris, where she founded her own publishing company. The Domino Press introduced American readers to artists from all over the world, including Feodor Rojankovsky, who later won a Caldecott Award. In 1941, Esther Averill returned to the United States and found a job in the New York Public Library while continuing her work as a publisher. She wrote her first book about the red-scarfed, mild-mannered cat Jenny Linsky in 1944, modeling its heroine on her own shy cat. Esther Averill would eventually write twelve more tales about Miss Linsky and her friends (including the I Can Read Book, The Fire Cat), each of which was eagerly awaited by children all over the United States (and their parents, too).
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