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Contest: Tell Us About Your Store Cat!

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Five lucky bookstore cats will receive a gorgeous handmade belled cat collar made by me, Mouse. The collars will arrive, with a personal note from yours truly, in a special gift box. Email a photo of your bookstore cat to hannah@drawbridge.com and we will post them here. If you have url links with photos and information about your bookstore cat send them along.

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Mouse

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Publisher's Weekly Contest: Tell Us About Your Bookstore Cat!

Tell us all about your bookstore cat! You can post your comments below.

Five lucky bookstore cats will receive a gorgeous handmade belled cat collar made by me, Mouse. The collars will arrive, with a personal note from yours truly, in a special gift box. Email a photo of your bookstore cat to hannah@drawbridge.com and we will post them here. If you have url links with photos and information about your bookstore cat send them along.

Good luck!
Mouse

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Here's What The Reviewers Are Saying About But Who Will Bell The Cats?

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Kirkus Reviews: "Young readers will pore over this one again and again."
August, 2009:

Following a retelling of the Aesop fable, Von Buhler embellishes the tale with a luxurious castle, a princess, some pampered cats and an inventive, brave mouse with a faithful bat friend. The poor mouse lives in a dark basement, cold and hungry, surviving on the crumbs that fall through the floorboards. He has grandiose schemes to bell the cats, involving elaborate costumes. Of c

Enchanted Dollhouse Castle Created By Cynthia von Buhler To Be Exhibited at The Nassau County Museum of Art

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NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

BUT WHO WILL BELL THE CATS?

Enchanted World of Dollhouse Castle Created by Children's Book Author and Illustrator Cynthia von Buhler

In NCMA's MiniArtMuseum for Children - September 20, 2009 through January 3, 2010

Come to the Party!
Book Signing and Exhibition Party on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 2 pm
Free with Museum Admission, All Welcome

Nassau County Museum of Art's (NCMA) MiniArtMuseum for Children takes on the fascination of a dollhouse

September 2009: But Who Will Bell The Cats?

Finally, the solution to Aesop’s age-old question:
Who will bell the cats?

Mouse and his friend, Brown Bat, are determined to get out of the basement and into the banquet hall to join the fun and frolicking there. But escape won’t be easy with the cats blocking their efforts . . .

It will take many attempts and a surprising solution for Mouse and Bat to succeed.

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Cynthia von Buhler’s enchanted upstairs/downstairs world shows readers the rewards of determination, bravery, and creativity—and reminds them of the uncomplicated power of kindness.

In addition to having written this story, I was also the painter, sculptor, interior decorator, mason, gardener, and plumber of the sets. The rooms were built by hand from wood. The stone walls were formed from plaster. The floors are handmade from inlaid wood, mother-of-pearl, and plaster. The characters were painted in oils on gessoed paper, then cut out and placed in the sets. I photographed the scenes with a Nikon D300.

The book will be out in September '09, and the official www.butwhowillbellthecats.com website will be ready by the end of June. This working blog gives you a glimpse into the process of how I created the sets and characters. I made this blog for my editor and designer so they could view my progress, but now I have opened it up for all to see. Enjoy! - Cynthia von Buhler

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Go here: http://butwhowillbellthecats.com

New Review

Kids Lit - "Great drama in a lovely theater of a book, this book will reach out to anyone who spots the cover."

Beginning with the fable from Aesop, Buhler creates an answer to the question of who will bell the cats. The story is one of two very different but very nearby worlds. One is the world of privilege and pampering of the princess and her eight cats. The other is the world below the floor of Mouse and his friend Bat who live on the crumbs and waste of the world above them. Mouse...

But Who Will Bell The Cats? To Be Released By Houghton Mifflin, September 2009

Cynthia says:

You haven't heard much from me lately because I was holed up in my studio for most of 2008. I was working on my upcoming children's book But Who Will Bell The Cats? In addition to having written this story, I was also the painter, sculptor, interior decorator, mason, gardener, and plumber of the sets. The rooms were built by hand from wood. The stone walls were formed from plaster. The floors are handmade from inlaid wood, mother-of-pearl, and plaster. The characters were painted in

The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside Dollhouse and Characters at The Nassau County Museum of Art

Cynthia von Buhler's The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside dollhouse and book characters have been accepted into the The Nassau County Museum of Art's Tee Ridder Minatures Museum Collection. The set and characters will be on display beginning in October of 2007. The museum is also allowing Cynthia von Buhler access to their collection for her next children's book which will be released by Houghton Mifflin in Fall of 2009. Von Buhler is currently working on the characters for this book.

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King Tut Greets Me In Mamaroneck, New York

King Tut

I visited Mamaroneck Avenue School in Mamaroneck New York last week to give a slide presentation about my book to all 500 students. I was in for a surprise when the ultra-cool librarian, Madeline Gilbert, picked me up at the train station with her pet cockatoo, King Tut, on her shoulder. The bird stays at the library with her every day and at the end of the school year Madeline brings in her pet turtle. Her office, with fellow cool librarian Carol Santini, is a dark planetarium and the

Kodiak's Clay Cat

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The clay cat workshop and book reading at The Staten Island Museum was a big hit. We are doing another one on Saturday, August 25th at 2 p.m. For more information please click HERE.

Here is a letter from a parent who attended the Clay Cat Workshop at The Staten Island Museum:

"Cynthia,

Kodiak (age 4) is finished with the cat sculpture he started at your 5/19 clay workshop at the Staten Island Museum. The photos are attached. The sculpture is painted like one of his mom's cats.

I also blogged (with