M Mammy Tittleback and Her Family A True Story of Seventeen Cats Helen Hunt Jackson

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Mammy Tittleback and Her Family

A True Story of Seventeen Cats

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A tortoiseshell cat with a growing family gives Johnny and Rosy Chapman the best part of a summer visit to their uncle's home in Mendon, Pennsylvania. Eight-year-old Johnny and six-year-old Rosy are delighted to find six newborn kittens, along with older cats and another pair of little ones. Their affection soon becomes a practical project when Mammy Tittleback chooses a nest under a pile of fence rails and Johnny decides to build a house for the cats.

Helen Hunt Jackson makes the children's arrangements as important as the animals themselves: separate rooms, fixed milk pans and gentle lessons about where each family belongs. Juniper, who prefers to roam between rooms, provides a comic challenge to their careful plans. Presented as a true story of seventeen cats, this children's tale offers close observations of pets and a picture of young caretakers learning to turn enthusiasm into patient attention.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson worked as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and advocate, publishing under her own name as well as H.H. and Saxe Holm. Between Whiles collects stories issued after her death, while Bits About Home Matters shortens the original essay title Bits of Talk About Home Matters.