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Text copyright © 2016 by Marion Dane Bauer
Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Jennifer A. Bell
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The text for this book was set in Perpetua.
The illustrations for this book were rendered in pencil and finished digitally.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bauer, Marion Dane.
Little cat’s luck / Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell. — 1st edition.
pages cm
Summary: A little cat named Patches manages to push out a window screen and leave her house, chasing a falling leaf, and sets out to find a special place to call her own.
ISBN 978-1-4814-2488-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-2490-5 (eBook) [1. Novels in verse. 2. Cats—Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 4. Dogs—Fiction.
5. Animals—Infancy—Fiction.] I. Bell, Jennifer (Jennifer A.), 1977– illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.5.B385Lg 2016
[Fic]—dc23
2014037635