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Ruddy Kingfisher (Halcyon coromanda), family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, Sabah, Borneo

A Churchkitten Caturday

This Caturday we are showing images of Gabriel Churchkitten from Churchmouse Stories; A Collection of Peter Churchmouse, and Other Children’s Favorites written and illustrated by Margot Austin. This collection contains five of Austin’s stories and was published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. in New York in 1956. Austin began her series of church-animal stories with Dutton in 1941, and one of her stories centered on Gabriel Churchkitten was made into an animated film short in 1944.

Peter Churchmouse and Gabriel Churchkitten reside with Parson Pease-Porridge. They go from one blunder to another in these stories but make it through relatively unscathed.  Here’s hoping that you too remain relatively unscathed on this Caturday.

“The Giants Whisper”

José Miguel Angulo

(Shel)duck face!