Esther Holden Averill
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Esther Averill (July 24, 1902 – May 19, 1992) was an American writer and illustrator best known for the Cat Club picture books, a collection of 13 stories featuring Jenny Linsky, a small black cat who always wears a red scarf. She was also an editor and publisher.
Books
Jenny's birthday book
With her brothers and her friends, the little black cat named Jenny celebrates her birthday in the park.
Captains of the city streets
Two tramp cats searching for a place of their own discover that members of the Cat Club but are not easily induced to join them.
Jenny and the cat club
Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Tinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
Jenny's moonlight adventure
On Halloween night when Madame Butterfly slips down the drainpipe, hurts her paw, and loses her nose flute, Jenny bravely volunteers to return her friend's beloved flute, even at the risk of being captured by dogs.
When Jenny lost her scarf
When a rough dog steals Jenny's scarf and takes it to the Den of Dogs, it takes a fire and the work of the fire cat to retrieve it.
The school for cats
Captain Tinker sends Jenny Linsky off to boarding school for the summer, but when another student frightens her, she tries to run away.
King Philip, the Indian chief
A sympathetic portrait of King Philip, the Wampanoag sachem who mounted an uprising against the colonial settlers trying to take his people's land.
Jenny goes to sea
The little black cat named Jenny, along with her brothers and their owner Captain Tinker, sails around the world on a ship called the Sea Queen.
The hotel cat
Relates the rise of Tom, the hotel cat, from catcher of mice in the cellar to successful upstairs cat in charge of the hotel's guest cats.