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novelist, translator,

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many books

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day She-Cat, self the

a stray tabby,

mother of four

of good homes.

wrinkled

face,

found her-

kittens in need

One was dark with kitten

there

was no

for the s\\eetest cat of

all

her adult books.

was the

Rye, she

made her

choices,

than Ploney.

all

now

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young English artat the Wimbledon Art in London. While workKindle of Kittens, which is

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picture book, Ms. Byrnes vis-

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and

Rye, painting

houses

happy and

and people

an,d

sketching the

there,

many

which appear in the book. She successful ones.

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Surrey, England.

Byrnes's illustrations lovingly

capture the charm of Rye, England, the setting for

A

Kindle of Kittens,

in a

story with enough of a moral perhaps to satisfy

of

former resident of

divides her time

Lyxxe Byrnes is ist who studied

name

deal about the owners) in town, finally

many

valuable,

better

tell

most

Scotland and London.

so hand-

As any good mother \\'ould, She-Cat made a careful survey of the hoiises and dustbins (for they

Rockijig Horse Secret. She was in Sussex, England, but spent

of her childhood and part of her later

thought She-Cat, and so she called him

Money. And

The born

years in India, the setting for

color of orange marmalade, and he was

named Sunny. The third was some and elegant he had to be

Vinegar Bottle, and

in a

a

and so She-Cat called

him Funny. The second

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are

Woman

The Dolls' House, The Old "Kindle'' means to give birth, and one

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