Jennie (Collins Modern Classics)

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However, I probably would have survived -- we are still requiring grade-school children to read Where the Red Fern Grows, aren't we? He is perhaps best remembered for his short story, The Snow Goose and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, which was made into a very famous film adaptation in 1972. I was sent scurrying to a re-read of this following a chance post by a fellow blogger about fictional books with a cat-focus Interesting Literature.

There seems to be a disconnect between acts, and I was deeply bothered by the fact that the entire second act was a coma dream. And once I stop crying and hugging my kitten, and apologizing to him for the whole horrible world, I'm going to go find some chocolate. Deserves to be better known, it's a lovely story and well told, not hard to read, needs a contemporary cover and would stand up well against modern animal stories.Of course it is completely classist, racist and includes many painfully bad caricatures, which might cause modern readers to cringe.

If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation. The book is so chock full of this bizarre and frankly not a little creepy imagery involving cats, one of whom we know is actually a little boy.J K Rowling also excels at this; she has said her favorite book growing up was Gallico's "Manxmouse.

The most impressive thing about this story was the wonderful passages of Peter learning to be a cat - how to lick himself, how to move through the world as a cat, how to fight as one.

Paul Gallico truly explores what it would be like to be a cat living in the wild, with no guaranteed source of food or shelter. A wonderful book for cat-lovers in particular - and for anyone dealing with feelings of being an outsider, of the loneliness of being different.