Esther Averill (1902-1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for her local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College in 1923, she moved first to New York City and then to Paris, where she founded her own publishing company. The Domino Press introduced American readers to artists from all over the world, including Feodor Rojankovsky, who later won a Caldecott Award. In 1941, Esther Averill returned to the United States and found a job in the New York Public Library while continuing her work as a publisher. She wrote her first book about the red-scarfed, mild-mannered cat Jenny Linsky in 1944, modeling its heroine on her own shy cat. Esther Averill would eventually write twelve more tales about Miss Linsky and her friends (including the I Can Read Book, The Fire Cat), each of which was eagerly awaited by children all over the United States (and their parents, too).
"Another in the shy Jenny Linsky cat stories, as that plaintive
little creature goes to a cat school in the country far from
home. The author has a beguiling way of telling a story, and
she writes of Pickles, the school bully who frightens little
Jenny away, and of how Jenny learned to have fun at
school, and handle the bully. Humorous and
sympathetic listening reading for the nursery school, and
primary grade set.” — Kirkus Reviews
"Deftly handled, nicely proportioned, this story has the sense of
reality which is the earmark of good fantasy. Five to
eight-year-olds who have their own problems of adjustment in school
will rejoice in Jenny's moral triumph. The pictures, drawn with a
sophisticated simplicity, are a perfect complement to the text."
—The New York Times
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