Overview

Our story opens with a cat stuck in a tree, an ordinary-enough occurrence. Fletcher the cat, having run up the tree in a moment of thoughtless abandon, cannot get back down. Then strange things begin to happen- Fletcher finds in his tree a steamer trunk full of hats, and among the hats a papier m che egg that opens to reveal Zenobia, a worldly talking doll who was locked in the egg by an unfeeling child named Mabel. To cheer each other up, Fletcher and Zenobia decide to throw a party, complete with cake, peach ice cream, and punch from a silver punch bowl. The hats come in handy, and a moth, drawn to the festivities, soon becomes the vehicle of an unexpected escape plan.

A story of metamorphosis and friendship, like The Owl and the Pussycat crossed with Alice in Wonderland, Fletcher and Zenobia is a wildly imaginative tale of wish fulfillment and freedom. At once silly and zany, it is not without a certain delicacy of feeling that older children, and adults, will also appreciate.

Publication History- First US pub. 1967; OP for decades

ISBN-13

9781590179635

ISBN-10

1590179633

Weight

0.52 Pounds

Dimensions

6.40 x 0.60 x 6.30 In

List Price

$14.95

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

72 pages

Publisher

NYR Children's Collection

Published On

2016-04-12



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