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The Silent Miaow - Paul Gallico

Description: ISBN 0330301500 / Author: Paul Gallico / A book of instructions for kittens and stray cats on how to find and dominate the families of ... more

The Silent Miaow - Paul Gallico ... their choice.

Newest Review: ... of what the book was telling me, until I re read it later in my teenage years. Having owned cats for as long as I can ... more

... remember I can see how on target everything in this book is. The title states it is ‘A manual for kittens, strays and homeless cats’ this should be extended, in my opinion anyway, to include every cat. To say it was ‘written’ by Gallico is perhaps a mis term, it is ‘translated’ by him. The story as told by Gallico about how he came by the manuscript is bizarre to say the least. A publisher found this ‘manuscript’ on his door step, on looking at it more closely thought it wa...more

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The Silent Miaow - Paul Gallico: READ IT AND BELIEVE! (549 words)
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Paul Gallico a talented and gifted story teller, born in New York in 1898 began a career in journalism, expanding into books, short stories and screenplays. His most famous story, The Snow Goose has become a literary classic, indeed I can remember reading this at school and being entranced. Gallico was also a huge cat lover and his books Jennie and Thomasina are fabulously insightful when it comes to the workings of the feline psyche. The Silent Miaow was first published in 1964 and has been a success since, no self respecting cat lover should be without it! The Silent Miaow, is quite possibly one of the earliest books I can remember reading myself, apart from ... Read the complete review

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