THE CATS GO TO MARKET

Now with a Read-Along video chapter!


When the cats get hungry and market day arrives, they just can’t help themselves! Such yummy seafood to be had and who would deny the cats some fat juicy fish-heads? Well, it turned out to be Mrs. Gubbins, who did not like cats. Chaos ensues!



“...a most attractive book, with a pointed and well-told story and magnificently vigorous and stylish pictures...Almost alone among contemporary workers in this field (Stobbs) draws with equal assurance and personality the human and animal actors and places them in their setting.”

The Junior Bookshelf (London)


“…it is difficult to say which is better, the almost poetic text with its meticulous attention to details, which young children so enjoy, or the perfectly matched illustrations.” Books For Young Children (London)


Joan E. Cass (1901 - 1994) was born the first child and eldest daughter of a Church of England clergyman. She taught her father's younger Sunday School children while she was still at school, and her godmother then paid for her to qualify as a teacher. She subsequently taught and led more than one nursery school, including in London during World War II.  


Later, she became a Lecturer in Child Development at the London Institute of Education.  The main influences on her work came from Sybil Marshall and, indirectly, Melanie Klein. A prolific children’s writer, Joan wrote fourteen illustrated children’s books, including the Cass Cat Quartet.