Uncle Andy's Cats

by James Warhola, James Warhola (Illustrator)

Overview

It all started with a little blue cat named Hester. Then along came Sam, and it was love at first sight—and lots of little Sams! While the cats are perfectly happy stampeding through Uncle Andy's art studio and frolicking among his soup boxes, the humans know things have to change. So Uncle Andy devises a brilliant plan to make his cats famous-and easier to find homes for.

James Warhola's childhood memories of trips to New York City to visit his uncle, Andy Warhol, inspired this warm, funny story of the famous artist's house full of cats. Kids will pore over the illustrations trying to spot all the Sams, as well as some very clever mice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399251801
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	07/09/2009
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD630L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

James Warhola wrote and illustrated Uncle Andy’s: A faabbbulous visit withAndy Warhol, a Book Sense 76 selection. He lives in Tivoli, New York.
James Warhola wrote and illustrated Uncle Andy’s: A faabbbulous visit withAndy Warhol, a Book Sense 76 selection. He lives in Tivoli, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Readers will know they're in for a treat when they glimpse the book cover: a phalanx of near-identical Russian Blue cats, with one particularly adorable specimen winking at viewers from under a signature white Warhol-esque fright wig. This book's titular Uncle Andy is, of course, the iconographic pop artist Andy Warhol, here lovingly remembered by his nephew. The famous Warhol cats descended from a pair-Hester and her frisky companion Sam-that produced generations of kittens, quickly overrunning the tall, skinny townhouse Warhol shared with his mother. All the females were called Hester and all the males Sam, eventually becoming the subjects of a highly collectible series of screen prints. Warhola makes the most of the humor in the situation, flooding the house with cat after smiling cat, showing in cross-section the five floors of activity. The more quirky details of Warhol's life and Factory companions aside, his oeuvre is both comprehensible and highly accessible to kids, whether encountered in museums or in poster shops in malls across America. This charming remembrance makes a famous artist real to both kids and art lovers alike. (Picture book/memoir. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews