Miss Hazeltine’s Home for
Shy and Fearful Cats
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Still, he worried. Would he ever be brave?”
I’m following up my BookPage review of Alicia Potter’s Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Shy and Fearful Cats (Knopf, May 2015), illustrated by Birgitta Sif, with a bit of art from the book, as well as some early sketches from Birgitta. The review is here, and I thank her for sharing the images here today.
Enjoy …
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‘and will be back before dark.’ Crumb watched her go.”
— Sketch and final spread
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MISS HAZELTINE’S HOME FOR SHY AND FEARFUL CATS. Text copyright © 2015 by Alicia Potter. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Birgitta Sif. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. All images here reproduced by permission of Birgitta Sif.