Submitted by Ms. Tess!
Artist Stéphane Jorisch offers a brilliant reinterpretation of Edward Lear’s classic poem in this beautifully illustrated edition of The Owl and the Pussycat. Jorisch takes Lear’s non-sensical interspecies romance one step further, portraying an affluent owl and a cat from (literally) the other side of the tracks who must hide their affection for one another from their close-minded neighbors. Seeking a place where they can love each other freely, they set out to sea. They sail to a land where their relationship is embraced and, after acquiring a ring from a friendly pig, the owl and pussycat are wed! Lear was an incredibly inventive poet (for instance, he coined the term “runcible spoon” for this poem) and Jorisch took the melancholy inferred from the poem (probably reflective of the repressive 19th century English society Lear was witness to) to inspire his fanciful, but thought-provoking illustrations. You can read The Owl and the Pussycat to the children in your life as a silly rhyming story, or as a celebration of true love and its ability to conquer all obstacles! See this book listed in our catalog
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