The First Ship's Cat
01/10/19 • 6 min
In this episode Phebe chats about the history of cats on ships, even as far back as the Egyptians, and Vikings. Did you know black cats were lucky? A tea kettle whistles her listeners into a legend about Noah’s Ark, and how the cat first appeared. The reading is taken from The First Ship’s Cat, from Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, on page 49 inside the book The Well-Read Cat by Browntrout Publishers in San Francisco.
As always, a photo and purchase link to the book is located in the Episode and Show Notes section of The Literary CatCast (dot) com. A photo of the cat who voices the meows is also on the website. The Literary CatCast Podcast exists to help literature lovers, who also love cats, build their personal libraries with old and new books featuring cats as main characters.
In this episode Phebe chats about the history of cats on ships, even as far back as the Egyptians, and Vikings. Did you know black cats were lucky? A tea kettle whistles her listeners into a legend about Noah’s Ark, and how the cat first appeared. The reading is taken from The First Ship’s Cat, from Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, on page 49 inside the book The Well-Read Cat by Browntrout Publishers in San Francisco.
As always, a photo and purchase link to the book is located in the Episode and Show Notes section of The Literary CatCast (dot) com. A photo of the cat who voices the meows is also on the website. The Literary CatCast Podcast exists to help literature lovers, who also love cats, build their personal libraries with old and new books featuring cats as main characters.
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Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem
Phebe Phillips reads her classic, charming Holiday poem, Cat and Mouse's Christmas, about a friendship between a cat, and a mouse.
Cat and Mouse’s Christmas
by Phebe Phillips
written December 12, 2018
On the night before Christmas, inside the warm house,
Cat was stirring, in preparation for tea with Mouse.
He mulled catnip, camomile, dutch lavender, and peppermint drops.
He cubed cheddar, and swiss. He made havarti cream pops.
They laughed and told stories, they giggled—tee-hee .
Cat and Mouse, great friends they would be.
They looked at the tree,
and hid in the branches.
They played cat and mouse,
and did silly dances.
Cat gifted Mouse scraps of yarn from his ball.
Mouse gifted Cat a felted acorn he found last Fall.
Daylight was breaking, it was time to go home.
They hugged and rubbed whiskers, made hearts with their tails.
Christmas Day was waking, cloudless and bright.
Said Cat to Mouse, “Merry Christmas my friend. I’ll see you tonight.”
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