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# Jennie (Collins Modern Classics)

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Utterly enthralling
  

*by V***C on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2012*

I first read this book 50 years ago (yes, 50) when I was very young. My elder sister kindly loaned it to me, and I can't adequately describe what a deep impression it made on my young mind. I recall I wanted to find Jennie, take her home and look after her.Well, the book soon went out of print, I couldn't find a copy anywhere, and the years rolled by. But I never forgot it, and then it turned up on Amazon (of course, where else) in e-book format. I'd forgotten much of it, and misremembered much of the rest, but it didn't matter. What a pleasure it was to read it again after all these years.If you're a cat fancier you'll certainly enjoy reading this. If you're not, well, you may find you never see cats in quite the same way again.  Paul Gallico anthropomorphises them of course, but there's much in Peter and Jennie that you'll find in real cats.Highly recommended.(Deep in my imagination, Jennie is still out there somewhere.........)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Learning the profound arts of purring, mousing, and, above all, washing.
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2016*

I was sent scurrying to a re-read of this following a chance post by a fellow blogger about fictional books with a cat-focus. Particularly as another post by a different blogger, about a book by Beverley Nichols had sent me to my bookshelves in remembrance of a book from childhood by Nichols, about his cats. 
  
Beverley Nichols' Cats' A. B. C.







  
  
    I first read Paul Gallico’s delightful (and sobbingly heart-aching) book about a little boy who finds himself changed into a cat, when I was probably at target age 8-11, I think. And I have occasionally read it again, and it’s similarly cats-eye view orientated successor, Thomasina.Although the protagonist is a little boy, this is by no means childishly written, nor does it just offer whimsicality about cats. I’m afraid, despite of course knowing the story well, that I sobbed in all the places I had ever sobbed before – perhaps partly because of memories of the first sobbing, aged somewhere around 9 or 10, but also, because some quite deep themes are being explored – particularly loss, friendship, betrayal of trust, death.“Hers was the call of the loneliness of the rejected, the outcast of the granite heart of the unheeding city”Peter Brown is a lonely rather privileged little boy – he has a Nanny and two successful, socialite parents who are too busy to give him much love and affection. Above everything, he wants a cat, but as Nanny doesn’t like them and his parents are too occupied with their own concerns to risk upsetting Nanny, Peter’s dearest wish is denied. Seeing a little kitten across a busy main road, Peter follows his tender instincts and runs, without doing his Green Cross, across the road. And is knocked down. Unexpectedly he finds he has become a white cat (I know, I know, but stick with it, this is far from merely twee fantasy)Gallico, a life long animal, and particularly cat-animal lover, absolutely takes the reader inside cat-dom. Peter retains human consciousness, and has no idea how to circumnavigate his new world. Starving, chased away, stepped on by unaware people because he lacks the cat sense to get out of the way, Peter is almost killed by a ferocious territorial feral top cat. Fortunately, he gets rescued by the eponymous Jennie, a sweet-faced, sweet-natured, intelligent and rather plain fellow stray cat. Jennie is a cat who now hates people, following her abandonment by the loving family who were everything to her. She begins to teach the little boy trapped inside a cat’s body how to be a cat. And the reader too! Peter must learn the intricacies of being able to wash himself, the difference between the game of catching your breakfast mouse and killing a deadly rat, cat courtesy, the rules of cat conflict, how to open dustbins – and much more.Although Peter comes to think as cat, he also retains his little boy ability to understand human language, and, rather importantly, to read. He has many exciting adventures with Jennie – including travelling, as the two stowaway and work passage on a Glasgow steamer. They have several instances of narrow escapes from various dangers which might befall a cat, and, as in all good books, grow, develop and change through their relationship with each other and external events.Peter and Jennie learn from each other and teach each other how to be more – soulful, whatever the shape of the body that encloses them.Gallico leavens sadness with much fun and good humour, and all his characters, feline and human are quirky, recognisable and sharply delineatedThis is a gorgeous book for a tender-hearted child, and a tender-hearted adult too. And with even more appeal if some of your tenderness is cat shapedHappily now re-issued as a Modern Classic, it was originally published in 1950

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fantastic memories from my childhood.
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2024*

My mother bought my first copy of Jennie for me and, I find that even 60 years since I opened that first copy, Paul Gallico's magical story exerts the same hold over me. Mr Gallico loved cats as I do and his love shines through every word of this truly fantastic story. He knew how and why cats behave in certain ways and he used this knowledge when he described Jennie's lessons, teaching Peter, the 8 year old boy who had woken up as a cat, not just to behave like a cat, but to become one. I, as an 8 year old girl recovering from appendicitis, desperately wanted to emulate Peter's experience, sadly that has never happened to me, but my love of cats remains. I have never given my heart and home to animals to the extent that he did... a great dane and 23 cats at one go seems a tad excessive, but I have always shared my life with rescue animals of varying species and there has always been at least one cat.

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