- Family, Newbery Medal, Family life, Fiction
A fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has been friends, and his father.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Emily Cheney Neville
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Puffin Books, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780207952388
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“My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy.”
American author who's first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964.
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