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Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, an American children's literature writer, was born on May 31, 1893, and passed away on August 31, 1986. Her works are known for their rich imagination and profound emotions, making significant contributions to the field of children's literature. more

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“His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.”

“The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.”