The Underneath *1st, Award Winner

Appelt, Kathi

ISBN 10: 1416950583 / ISBN 13: 9781416950585

Published by Atheneum, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing of this lovely Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award Finalist. An old hound dog and two kittens live "Underneath" a porch, where they are safe from the outside world and its dangers. New and unread in jacket; no medal sticker; jacket unclipped of course. Seller Inventory # 89020501

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Underneath *1st, Award Winner

Publisher: Atheneum, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: David Small

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Not Signed

Edition: First Edition Stated; "1" in Number Line

About this title

Synopsis:

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath.

Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love -- and its opposite, hate -- the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

Product Description:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers