What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Old children’s chapter book - Two kittens (Blacky and Pinky) visit a museum and go on adventures in the city
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Found it! The book is "The Country Kittens" by Eleanor Clymer, published in 1947 (Robert M McBride & Company). It doesn't appear to be widely available, but here's a synopsis I found: "Country kittens, like country cousins, are ripe for adventure when they come to town. Pinky and Blacky's mother had prophesied that their sojourn in the city would be an education -- and it was. An unpremeditated odyssey, begun in a revolt against the indignity of doll clothes, led them to a cats' alley concert, to an interesting night in the Museum of Natural History."
The only info I can find online is a random blog commenter also trying to find it who remembers it this way: “A story about two kittens who lived in the Museum of Natural History in NYC and liked to climb on the dinosaur skeletons. They were orange and black, but were called Blackie and Pinky, ‘because you can’t call a cat Orangey.’” Those extra details sound accurate to me.
I read this book as a kid, probably around 2003-2005, but it was an older book. (At the time, I was reading lots of older books like Betsy-Tacy, the Moffats, and the original Boxcar Children). I checked it out from my library a couple of times, but it is no longer in their catalog. I remember the book being a solid yellow hardback book with no dust jacket.
Books I’ve looked into that are NOT it:
Any of the “Jenny’s Cat Club” book series
Pinky Pye
Blackie, A Lost Cat