Christmas Cats: A Literary Companion

Credits and Permissions

"Holiday Sparkles, or Home for the Holidays" by Amy D. Shojai. Copyright © 2OO5 by Amy D. Shojai.

"Along Comes Spit McGee" from My Cat Spit McGee by Willie Morris, copyright © 1999 by Willie Morris. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

"Vincent" by Jim Edgar. Copyright © 2OO5 by Jim Edgar.

"The Rescue" from The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory. Copyright © 1987 by Cleveland Amory (text); copyright © 1987 by Edith Allard (illustrations). By permission of Little, Brown and Co., Inc.

"Kitty at the Keyboard" by Steve Dale. Copyright © 2OO5 by Steve Dale.

"Spooky Gives Us a Scare" by Janine Adams. Copyright © 2OO5 by Janine Adams.

"My Mother's Cat" by Renie Burghardt from the book Angel Cats. Copyright © 2004 by Allen and Linda Anderson. Reprinted with permission of New World Library, Novato, Calif.

"The Real Thing" by Beth Adelman. Copyright © 2OO5 by Beth Adelman.

"Bengal Turkey Divine" by Miriam Fields-Babineau. Copyright © 2OO5 by Miriam Fields-Babineau.

Excerpt from Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown, copyright © 1992 by American Artist, Inc. Used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

"Letter to Louise, Part III: Being the Meditations of Midnight Louie in New York City" from Cat in a Golden Garland

by Carole Nelson Douglas. Copyright © 1997 ky the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC.

"The Noel Cat" by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Copyright © 2OO5 by Shirley Rousseau Murphy.

"Kitty 'Box'-ing Day" by Betsy Stowe. Copyright © 2OO5 by Betsy Stowe.

"The Mystery of Musetta's Mistletoe" by Clea Simon. Copyright © 2OO5 by Clea Simon.

"Holiday Safety" by Christine Church. Copyright © 2OO5 by Christine Church.

"The Purr-fection of Christmas Ritual" by Wendy Christensen. Copyright © 2OO5 by Wendy Christensen.

"God Rest Ye Merry, Kitty Cats" by Laurie Loughlin from Catmas Carols. Copyright © 1993 by Laurie Loughlin. Used with permission of Chronicle Books, LLC, San Francisco.

"Buster the Feline Retriever" by James Herriot from James Herriot's Cat Stories by James Herriot. Copyright © 2OO3 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC, and Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.