A highly recommended children's picturebook based upon a real cat and a true story

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	• The Cat of Strawberry Hill Fran Hodgkins Down East Books, 2005 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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A highly recommended children's picturebook based upon a real cat and a true story

Her eyes are "the color of the sea" and her fur is "the brown of the earth in the potato fields of Arroostook county and the white of the snow on Mount Katahdin". Pumpkin reigns supreme as the inn cat at The Strawberry Hill Seaside Inn in Rockport, Maine. Separated from her owners at a roadside rest stop, Pumpkin becomes lost and but is finally rescued after enduring several alarming challenges. Delighting children ages 3 and up, The Cat Of Strawberry Hill is a highly recommended children's picturebook deftly written by Fran Hodgkins and expertly illustrated by Lesia Sochor -- and based upon a real cat and a true story.

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We've Met the Real Cat!

My husband and I stayed at Strawberry Hill in Rockport, Maine, this summer and fell in love with the real Pumpkin, the Cat of Strawberry Hill. I just had to buy a copy of the book for my grand children. I am Library Director of Cape Porpoise Library in Maine, and I also purchased a copy for the children's section of the library. We have digital photos of pumpkin, and she looks exactly like the star of her book.

Separated from her original owners at a highway rest stop on a trip to Maine, a kitten is chased by a dog, injured in a fall, and attacked by a herring gull. Exhausted, she is rescued by two innkeepers, who decide to take her home to Rockport. The cat adapts quickly to her new surroundings and to this day rules the roost at Strawberry Hill, greeting guests, walking them down to the water's edge, eyeing chickadees at the inn's bird feeder, and generally entertaining both her adopted parents and their guests.

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