Follow a special blue cat as it finds the human with whom he can share hearth and home, the only human who can learn the River's Song. This wonderful book is fully illustrated and is a Newbery Honor Book from 1950. This book is a delight for young and old alike.
The people of Castleto'n sing their own song to this day. Not long ago reports reached Washington that on Grandpa's Knob, a high point above this Vermont town, what looked like a giant windmill turned great arms in the sun. It was said that this was a wind turbine, which was seeking to use the wind to generate electricity. So, in the summer of 1946, Catherine Coblentz went to Castleto'n with her husband, who was interested in seeing this experiment.
There at a church supper, Hulda Cole, the village librarian, told her that Castleto'n was noted as the site from which Ethan Allen set out to take Fort Ticonderoga, and that the town was justly proud of two of its early citizens. One was the carpenter who built there the most beautiful church pulpit in Vermont, as well as many of the town's beautiful houses. The second was a girl who had designed and fashioned a carpet so beautiful and unusual that it hung now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. On that carpet, among other designs, was pictured a most fascinating blue cat.
"Why a blue cat?" inquired Mrs. Coblentz. But no one in all the town could say. Although there were those who recalled having heard that, in the days when the carpet lay on the floor of its creator's parlor, any cat walking into the room for the first time would always stop short, arch his back and spit at the blue cat pictured beneath his nose.
In the winter of 1946 Hulda Cole sent the source material of the town – which had been gathered by Mary Gerrish Higley and left to Mrs. Cole personally – to Catherine Coblentz in Washington. Its unexpected arrival was so tempting that Mrs. Coblentz studied it carefully, and twice returned to Castleto'n to see and learn more.
Not only was the history fascinating in itself – but the stuff of folklore was there. And so the author has handled it in this book. For a year and a half, she insists, the Blue Cat sat on her pillow night after night, trying to purr his story into her not-unwilling ears. Being a Vermonter by birth, Mrs. Coblentz was prepared to evaluate highly the spell which even to this day lies over this Vermont valley town. Every person mentioned in the book actually lived in the town, and did the things of which this book tells, and the names are the real names of those individuals of yesterday.
Or, to sum it up. Every word in the book is true, and there isn't a word of truth in it.
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