April's Kittens

by Clare Turlay Newberry

Book Overview

Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition.

Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones? The aptly named Charcoal? Tiger-striped Butch? Sweet-faced Brenda?--or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060244003
• ISBN13: 9780060244002
• Release Date: October 1968
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

These are marvelous books

... If you and your child love cats and gorgeous illustrations, you should hunt these books down. We have many of them. "Herbert the Lion" got us started and that's a delight too. THese books should not be allowed to go out of print

Wonderful Reviews from The New York critiques

The New Yorker review: "Mrs. Newberry is the paragon of cat portraitists. Here she has written the story of a little girl and her kittens to warm the heart of any child."The New York Herald Tribune: "Even better than MITTENS, this picture-book is a prize...This family lives in a one-cat apartment; every city dweller knows what that means...what a heartbreaking thing for a little girl to let even one of them go?The pictures are portraits of the sempiternal kitten, new with every batch yet old as Egypt."The New York Times: "Mrs. Newberry, if possible, is even better and more beguiling...in April's Kittens."

A timeless book to treasure

This book was given to me in 1940 when I was seven years old. I adored it then, and I have loved it ever since. I'm so happy to see that it's back in print! The illustrations are wonderful, but the story is outstanding too, with emotional depth found in too few picture books. The child's love for the cat and kittens, and the need to make a hard choice in the way best for everyone, was something I never forgot.

Great Story!

This book is a very cute book for cat lovers. This book is a about this girl who lives in a small apartment with her mom, dad and her cat. One day her cat has kittens and she wants to keep them but her dad says no. Can the girl keep her cat and kittens?