I read Lawson's Captain Kidd's Cat as a child of perhaps seven or nine.
I got my first pair of glasses round the same time, and dimly recall being pleased when I discovered that I could get round lenses like the ones Captain Kidd wore in the illustrations, rather than aviator frames like the ones my father had or some sort of plastic hornrims like the ones my mother wore when she took out her contacts, which were at that point the only varieties of glasses I was aware existed in the modern world.
It's funny, actually--last night I was thinking I'd read a book about a mouse who sailed with Captain Kidd, and felt too tired to work out more of it before going to bed, but this morning I realised I'd also read Lawson's Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos (1939) and that I was mixing the two together. The titular cat had an earring, didn't he?
I've downloaded a pdf of This Simian World. Anything with that line about vaudeville has got to be worth reading. And it if it wasn't the literal inspiration for Sam the Eagle, I'm sure that somehow it played a role.
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I got my first pair of glasses round the same time, and dimly recall being pleased when I discovered that I could get round lenses like the ones Captain Kidd wore in the illustrations, rather than aviator frames like the ones my father had or some sort of plastic hornrims like the ones my mother wore when she took out her contacts, which were at that point the only varieties of glasses I was aware existed in the modern world.
It's funny, actually--last night I was thinking I'd read a book about a mouse who sailed with Captain Kidd, and felt too tired to work out more of it before going to bed, but this morning I realised I'd also read Lawson's Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos (1939) and that I was mixing the two together. The titular cat had an earring, didn't he?
I've downloaded a pdf of This Simian World. Anything with that line about vaudeville has got to be worth reading. And it if it wasn't the literal inspiration for Sam the Eagle, I'm sure that somehow it played a role.