A Book of Cats and Creatures

A Book of Cats and Creatures

infobox Book |
name = A Book of Cats and Creatures
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = E. P. Dutton
release_date = 1981
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 127 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-525-26773-5

"A Book of Cats and Creatures" is a 1981 anthology of 18 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

Table of contents

*Introduction
*1. Katchen the Cat (Germany)
*2. The Imp Cat (Germany)
*3. Pussy Cat Twinkle (Switzerland)
*4. The Golden Knucklebone (Tartary)
*5. The Leeshy Cat (Archangel)
*6. Oh Mr Crocodile (Madagascar)
*7. A Pool of Bright Water (Russia)
*8. Little Wonder (Denmark)
*9. The Bird Wife (Siberia)
*10. The Juniper Bush (Sweden)
*11. Old Man Zackery and the Cranes (Russia)
*12. The Water Nick (Czechoslovakia)
*13. A Wonderful Bird (Russia)
*14. The Goat in the Sky (Russia)
*15. The Cat Johann (Poland)
*16. The Big Bird Katchka (Tadjakistan)
*17. Father Wren and King Tiger (Pomerania)
*18. The Small, Small Cat (U.S.A.)

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