Legacy, Reaction and Relevance
Millions of Cats appears consistently on lists of significant picture books for the young and milestones in the history of children's literature.
Shelly Duvall's Bedtime Stories narrated by James Earl Jones
Millions of Cats
Became an instant classic and won Newbery Honor award in 1929.
Sold over a million copies and has never gone out of print.
Was the first children's book to introduce illustrations stretched across a double spread.
Won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
Sold over a million copies and has never gone out of print.
Was the first children's book to introduce illustrations stretched across a double spread.
Won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
Millions of Cats stunned the children's book establishment
Anne Carroll Moore, children's librarian for the New York Public Library praised the "originality and strength of its pictures and the living folk-tale quality of the text."
The Nation said, "Millions of Cats is as important as the librarians say it is. Not only does it bring to book-making one of the most talented and original of American lithographers, an artist who has a following both here and abroad, but it is a marriage of picture and tale that is perfectly balanced."
Michael Hearn reminds us that Millions of Cats "was the only children's book to be included on the Nation's list of distinguished books of the year, [and] only one of eight children's books exhibited at the annual show of the American Institute of Graphic Arts."
"This Newbery Honor winner is distinguished by innovative design and a strong storyteller's cadence." (School Library Journal's "One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century")
"A perennial favorite." (The New York Times)
The Nation said, "Millions of Cats is as important as the librarians say it is. Not only does it bring to book-making one of the most talented and original of American lithographers, an artist who has a following both here and abroad, but it is a marriage of picture and tale that is perfectly balanced."
Michael Hearn reminds us that Millions of Cats "was the only children's book to be included on the Nation's list of distinguished books of the year, [and] only one of eight children's books exhibited at the annual show of the American Institute of Graphic Arts."
"This Newbery Honor winner is distinguished by innovative design and a strong storyteller's cadence." (School Library Journal's "One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century")
"A perennial favorite." (The New York Times)