This morning
Peter Abrahams joined Mindy Todd & Jill Erickson to talk about books about cats and dogs on
WCAI. Thanks for the many, many suggestions you made during the show! We now have a plethora of cat and dog books on our reading lists, and we think that Peter might have come to better understand cats. Here are the titles mentioned on air.
Mindy's Pick
E. B. White on Dogs edited by Martha White
Peter's Picks
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Cat by B. Kliban
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Carbonel: the King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe in
Murder Short & Sweet edited by Paul D. Staudohar
Cat Wars: the devastating consequences of a cuddly killer by Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella
A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life by James Bowen
Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Jill's Picks
The Animals' Who's Who by Ruthven Tremain
Pets on the Couch by Nicholas Dodman
Flush: a biography by Virginia Woolf
Shaggy Muses by Maureen Adams
Dog Songs: Poems by Mary Oliver
The Rose Garden: short stories by Maeve Brennan
Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs foreward by Malcolm Gladwell
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats foreward by Anthony Lane
Listener Suggestions
The Cat Who ... mystery series by Lilian Jackson Braun
Cats of Martha's Vineyard: 101 island tales by Lynn Christoffers
The Trainable Cat by John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis
"
A Man and His Dog" short story by Thomas Mann
The Fur Person by May Sarton
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern
Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories by Cheryl & Jeffrey Katz
The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Dogist: photographic encounters with 1,000 dogs by Elias Weiss Friedman
Anna Karenina, Levin's dog Laska
