Hug your Cat Day 2022

 

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I do need to begin this post by saying I am not a cat person but when I saw this post from my friend at Kinderbookswitheverything I thought of my own favourite cat books. I hope my friend doesn't mind my "copycat" post! She has a fabulous Pinterest of cat books for you to explore. Actually I once "cat sat" her cat and we did actually become, not exactly friends, but perhaps slightly closer acquaintances. 

Is Hug your cat Day real thing?  Yes it is - here is what I discovered: More than 30 years ago, in 1987, the Executive Cat Day Committee in Japan chose February 22 after a poll of over 9,000 cat lovers. The date 2-22 can be pronounced ni-ni-ni, which sounds close the Japanese equivalent of a cat's meow, nyan-nyan-nyan.

The date for this day (as identified by my friend) is 4th June. 

Here are some of the cat books I have mentioned on this blog plus a couple of others that I do like (even though, as I said, I am in fact not a cat person at all - give me a dog to cuddle any day). I have included picture books and novels but I do need to warn you many of these cats are not especially cuddly! I am quite surprised I found so many terrific books about cats to include in the past on this blog. I think this first one - Little Night Cat is my favourite and the most interesting one to read aloud is Cat, you Better Come home. 

Little Night Cat

Miss Hazeltines home for Shy and Fearful Cats

Six Dinner Sid

Flubby is not a Good Pet

Diva and Flea

A most Mysterious Mouse

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine

CBCA Treasures from the past

CBCA Treasures from the Past

Varjak Paw

Malkin Moonlight

CBCA Treasures from the Past part 2

Catkin

Houndsley and Catina book series

Little Cat's Luck

John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat

The Three-Legged Cat

Here are a couple of other books you might find in a library - Catwings by Ursula Le Guin; The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter; Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate; Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes; There are No Cats in this book by Viviane Schwarz; Come Down Cat by Sonya Hartnett; the Mog series by Judith Kerr; The Night Garden by Elise Hurst; If you give a cat a cupcake by Laura Numeroff; and a really old classic book The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. (There have been so many different covers for this one over the years - here are two).