Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky (New York Review Children's Collection)

First graders loved this book! I worried about its
"old-fashioned" feel, but this wasn't a problem. Even the boys stayed engaged throughout.

I read this to my daughter when she was 5; now she read it herself at 6. She loves this story. It's cute and about animals, which all kids love, but has more depth and has more mature themes than many "animal books". I think it has some great lessons about including and accepting others.

As a child I absolutely adored Esther Averill's The Fire Cat, a poignant early-reader in which a street cat named Pickles found his purpose in life. But it was not until the New York Review Children's Collection began reprinting them that I was aware that Averill had written many stories detailing

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the adventures of the cats - Pickles among them - who lived in New York City's Greenwich Village. How sad that I didn't know about Jenny Linsky as a child, but how wonderful that this omission is finally being corrected! Viva NYRCC!

Jenny and the Cat Club, first published in 1944, contains five short stories detailing the adventures of shy Jenny Linsky, a little black cat who belongs to Captain Tinker, and who always wears a distinctive red scarf. In The Cat Club, Jenny overcomes her shyness and discovers her "special gift." In Jenny's First Party, Jenny, Pickles and Florio find their way to a dance party. In When Jenny Lost Her Scarf Jenny's precious red scarf is stolen by Rob the Robber dog. In Jenny's Adopted Brothers Jenny convinces Captain Tinker to rescue the homeless Checkers and Edward. And finally, in How the Brothers Joined the Cat Club, Jenny conquers her jealousy, and helps her new brothers join the club...

This was a wonderful collection of stories, and should prove entertaining for chapter-book readers who love animal stories. Heartwarming and very satisfying, the story of Jenny - a shy little cat who needs a little help sometimes, but who has a good heart, and always does the best she can - offers the reader some simple truths, clothed in a gentle story. And of course, Averill's illustrations are adorable...

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Jenny and the Cat Club by Ester Averill is the story of how Jenny came to join the cat club. The stories were originally published together in 1973 and reissued in 2011.

I think if I ever adopt a female black cat, I'll have to name her Jenny Linksy. She is my favorite cat character from esther

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Averill's series of books about a Cat Club in Greenwich Village. I first met her and her friends through Hotel Cat — the book that also has the honor of being my first checked out library book after moving to our new home in the Hayward Hills.

Back then, Hotel Cat was the only book available because the others had fallen out of print and the library only had the last copy in the series. Since then, the New York Review has reissued most of the series (except for the prequel picture book, The Fire Cat). The entire collection is well worth purchasing for any cat loving child — or any child who suffers from shyness but craves adventures.

Nearly every page has one of Averill's delightful illustrations — black and white, save for a splash of red. The red is usually saved for the thing that delights the cat the most. So for Jenny, it's her scarf. For her brother, it's a red ball. And so forth.

Jenny and the Cat Club includes short tales about Jenny Linksy. She is adopted by Captain Tinker who makes her a red scarf to boost her self confidence. She encounters the Cat Club and desperately wants to learn a talent so she can join them. Later, Jenny becomes a sister to a pair of homeless cats and goes through some understandable moments of jealousy.

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Captain Tinker is a great, great man.

Great collection of easy to read children's stories about a tiny, shy, black cat named Jenny. I loved the illustrations, black and white with tiny touches of red. In each story the little shy cat finds a way to overcome her fears and try new things.

The Cat Club stories were a hit with my 3 1/2 year old, who is just learning to sit through chapter books. The stories are peppered with adorable illustrations which helped hold his interest and the language and content wasn't too much for him, so it's a great first chapter book for a preschooler.

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The stories are simple, yes, but that's why they're great: Jenny and her adventures are mainly about the kinds of feelings humans deal with every day, like jealousy, fear, and shyness.

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Jenny stories are so sweet... she is a shy little back cat who faces her fears with dignity and courage (as long as she has her red scarf, and even when she doesn't.) An aurilophiles favorite.

Written specifically for preK and first graders. Most of them will love this book, however, it has an"old-fashioned" feel.

There are only 3 stories left in our huge collection of the Best Children's Books of the 20th Century, from which we've been pulling stories at bedtime sporadically since Morgan was 2. Last night, we decided to finish it off. Now, Morgan is crazy about cats. However, we both felt this was the most

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pointless, boring, and poorly written piece of literature that we have ever seen. We had to force ourselves to finish just so that we can say we've finished out the whole collection, but had more fun demonstrating our boredom with monotone voices, eye-rolling, and mime-gagging than anything else. Ugh! I don't recommend this, even to kids who love cats!

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Second attempt to read Jenny stories. ?�Still don't appreciate them, or the art.
Note that they were first published starting in 1944 - but they don't feel dated too much; to me it's more a feeling of childish, primitive writing style and simplistic stories.

The edition I read is a Scholastic

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paperback with:
The Cat Club
Jenny's First Party
When Jenny Lost Her Scarf
Jenny's Adopted Brothers
How the Brothers Joined the Clu

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I read this book as a little kid (elementary school), and forty-odd years later, I still remember it with much love. Since Jenny is a female cat, I suspect boys might have a harder time getting into this book than girls would -- still, the other cats are a mix of male and female, and the

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plots/situations could appeal to both genders.

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