"The guessing-game nature of the story ("Where do you think the cat is walking now?") encourages interaction, and Ipcar’s trademark simple but modern illustrations have great child appeal." — Horn Book
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Cat at Night, The
The golden jubilee edition of a children’s classic first published in 1969.
Join the farmer’s cat on his fascinating nighttime journey through fields, farms, forests, and even the city to see what only he can see after the sun sets. Legendary artist Dahlov Ipcar mesmerizingly alternates between dark night scenes and vivid color to deliver a beautifully illustrated children’s classic. Each scene is shown first as a human would see it at night, and then as a cat sees it in with vivid color and fine detail. This commemorative edition features a new backmatter tribute to Dahlov’s artistry and to The Cat at Night from her biographer, poet and art critic Carl Little.
Written and Ilustrated by Dahlov Ipcar
New afterword by Carl Little
$18.95 hardcover ISBN 9781958394229 8.5 x 11 • 56 pages Illustrated in color throughout Ages 4 - 8 PICTURE BOOK FICTION
Dahlov Ipcar was born in Vermont, raised in Greenwich Village, and summered in Maine after her parents (the famed sculptor William Zorach and artist Marguerite Zorach) bought a farm there in 1923. Dahlov moved from New York City to the farm with her husband in 1937. Her children’s book career began in the early 1940s, when she illustrated The Little Fisherman by Margaret Wise Brown. This charming title helped launch a four-decade run that saw her write and illustrate more than thirty children’s books of her own. Today, her artwork is known worldwide. Dahlov Ipcar kept creating until her death in 2017, at age 99.
Carl Little is the author of many art books, including Edward Hopper’s New England, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, The Art of Francis Hamabe, and The Art of Dahlov Ipcar. His poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, Off the Coast, Hudson Review, Words & Images, and other journals and anthologies.
