Cats Know Best Book

Finding “Cats Know Best” is a blessing. Bright, warm images and endearing sentiments draw our hearts in. After finishing and browsing the most cheerful credit page I have ever seen: I learned every face is based on the artist’s kitties! In the credits she doesn’t solely name them all but tells us whom is related to whom; their genealogy! That a cat Mom like me, ensured all her children are represented and recorded in a published book does my soul good! The contents and messages are the simplest kind. Story snapshots that are brief but resonate as immensely special and so dear.

The basic vocabulary is of course composed for children but all of us would savour the joy brimming inside each of these pages. Lesley Anne Ivory & Colin Eisler name, as we behold each happy and loving scene: something a cat knows, likes, or is best at. Natural, commonsense statements about milk and the most comfortable place to sit or sleep, about caring for their infants.... these are all real traits and values of life, to which we can all relate.

Lesley’s gorgeous assortment of family kitties and the rooms she invites us into too, are art at its loveliest. The detail astounds me: for instance, the multicoloured mat of the title page. These are drawings that resemble real photographs and every place or scene she shows us is inspiring. Every inch is impressively illustrated in a way that lulls you inside each room, or lush weather tableau of these homes. The cats and kittens, even their portraits and ornaments and kitchen sundries in the background; are lifelike, calming, soothing, and mood-raising. This is an exquisite and emotionally uplifting piece of work to give our loved ones of any age, or to re-read ourselves with the utmost pleasure.