Kittens & Cats

They just don’t make them like they used to. Even though my daughter is now a bit beyond first readers it would be such a thrill if she brought this home from school. There are 104 pages (!!) of dressed up cats, cute captions, and lovely hand drawn frames. And there’s a story in there somewhere too.

Before LOLCat, Grumpy Cat, Longcat, Nyan Cat, before all the famed kitties of the internet age, before the modern computer was but a glint in Mother Turing's eye, there were the felines featured in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911).

The Public Domain Review is full of gems like this — tons of art and literature that’s free to download or share.