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Catherine Gilbert Murdock
decorations by
Paul O. Zelinsky
☆ "Thoroughly charming." Kirkus starred review
☆ "A story fresh with tight, fast-paced writing." Booklist starred review
☞ "Rome is fully realized in sounds, smells, intrigue, squalor, brio, and opulence." Horn Book
☞ "It truly has something for everyone." IndieBound
The year is 1510. Proud but solitary, young Federico Gonzaga is the son of an important Italian duke. But for political reasons he’s being held in the apartments of the Pope in Rome. When a yellow cat steps out of a visibly empty wooden closet, a surprised Federico gains his first friend. And soon after, from the same closet emerges the strangest being he’s ever seen—a scrappy girl named Bee, who happened to have stepped into her mysterious neighbor’s odd wooden cabinet, in New Jersey, in the 21st Century!
Bee has a mission, and she and Federico are soon swept into an adventure fraught with danger and steeped in art history, involving an unsigned drawing and a disappearing cat.
A funny, marvelous book of time travel. Sophie Blackall in The New York Times writes: ‘With its engaging friendships, enigmatic time travel and rollicking art mystery, ‘Da Vinci's Cat’ reminds me of Madeleine L’Engle's ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ Rebecca Stead's ‘When You Reach Me’ and E. L. Konigsburg's ‘From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler’—three of my favorite books—rolled into one.”
Da Vinci's Cat is decorated with one drawing (in pencil) of the cat for the opening of each of its 32 chapters (a significant number), plus an elegant title spread.
