num_pages: 274
description: An Advance Reader Copy edition exists here.Not since George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life has someone so lifted the spirits of an entire community. That the 'someone' in this case is in fact two library cats makes this true tale of the love of literature combined with a fondness for nose licking all the more magical. This book like a purring kitten who may also be a genie should be welcomed into any home.Francesco Marciuliano New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by CatsIt all started with mice in the library.Assistant librarian Jan Louch and a coworker decided that what the library needed was a cat. Or even better two cats. Soon they found a pair of Scottish Folds who were perfect for the job. Jan named them Baker and Taylor and they took up residence in the library.But these cats were much more than mousers. Visitors to the library fell in love with Baker and Taylor and their antics just as Jan had. And then after Jan let the cats be photographed for a poster they became feline celebrities. Children from across the country wrote them letters fans traveled from far and wide to meet them and they became the most famous library cats in the world.In The True Tails of Baker and Taylor Jan Louch looks back and tells the remarkable story of these two marvelous cats and the peoplereaders librarians and cat lovers of all ageswho came together around them.
language: English
title: The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books