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Gag's simple, appealing black ink drawings are perfect for the story, somehow capturing at least the idea of millions of cats in a single page. Anyone who has ever owned more than a single cat can tell you what happens next. When the wife points out their inability to support the legion of felines, it is left to the cats to decide who among them is the prettiest. When he is forced to choose from "hundreds, thousands, millions and billions and trillions" of cats, he (naturally) brings them all home.

An old man and his wife decide to get a cat, so the old man goes out in search of the prettiest cat of all.

The Gag Family, German-Bohemian Artists in America, by Julie L’Enfantįor a full list of Wanda’s children’s books and Gag family books go to Shop.Millions of Cats is a wonderful tale of vanity versus humility, written and illustrated by the singular Wanda Gag.

Wanda Gag, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints, by Audur Winnan.

In 1940 a book of edited excerpts from Wanda’s diaries (covering the years 1908 to 1917) was published as Growing Pains it received wide acclaim. Her books Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Nothing at All each won a Caldecott Honor Award. Among them ABC Bunny, which also won a Newbery Honor Award. She also wrote, illustrated and translated several other books. The book won a Newbery Honor award, one of the few picture books to do so, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Learn more about Millions of Cats here. It is an “enchanting tale”, written in folk-art style, with simple black and white illustrations, lyrical language, and a catchy refrain. Because of her dislike of machine print, she had her brother, Howard, hand-letter the text.

She had a sense of movement from left to right in order to urge the reader on to the next page. In Millions of Cats, Wanda initiated the double-page spread, designing two facing pages as one panoramic scene. The book has never been out of print and is the oldest American picture book still in print. In 1928 Wanda Gag wrote and illustrated the book Millions of Cats, considered today a classic in children’s literature.