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Esther Averill (1902-1992) wrote her first book about the red-scarfed, mild-mannered cat Jenny Linsky in 1944, modeling its heroine on her own shy cat. She wrote twelve Cat Club titles in total, including The Fire Cat, which continues to sell over 20,000 copies a year in the US.
""'Poor Jenny, bright as a penny, is a little black cat simply too timid to have fun, but capable of extraordinary bravado when she thinks no one is looking. This scaredy-kitten is at the centre of Esther Averill's deliciously appealing books about climbing up to confidence, paw by nervous paw' The Guardian 'The grace and charm of these little books are not only for children. In wording, illustration, and design they offer to people of all ages a short interview of pure delight' The Saturday Review 'There is a realness about Jenny, as well as a demure charm, that gives these annals of her doings a distinction lacking in many a more pretentious effort' The New Yorker""
