Rereading Our Childhood
Revisiting the children's books that made us who we are today
Rereading Our Childhood
Rereading The Hotel Cat by Esther Averill
On this episode, Deborah (a cat person) rereads, and Mary Grace (not a cat person) reads, The Hotel Cat (1969), a late entry in Esther Averill’s long Cat Club series.
Other books in the Cat Club series:
The Cat Club (1944)
Jenny Goes to Sea (1957)
The Fire Cat (1960)
Other podcast episodes:
Rereading Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Rereading Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
Rereading Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Rereading Stuart Little by E.B. White
Also mentioned:
The Flophouse podcast, Episode #302 – Cats
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast, transcript of Episode 64, Much Better than CATS — Esther Averill’s Jenny and the Cat Club
Celebrating Children’s Book Week–and a Pioneering Librarian, on Mary Grace’s blog, My Life 100 Years Ago
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, edited by Leonard Marcus
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Recommended for fans of The Hotel Cat: Stuart Little by E.B. White and Eloise by Kay Thompson (Mary Grace), other books in the Cat Club series (Deborah)
You can find Deborah’s author interviews on her blog, Books Q&A by Deborah Kalb, and Mary Grace’s adventures in the 1920s on her blog, My Life 100 Years Ago.
This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.
Podcast website at rereadingourchildhood.com