Cat Who... Pics

• US Covers for The Cat Who...:
  • Could Read Backwards: original 1966 hardcover | 1996 re-release hardcover | paperback | large print | unabridged audio | alternate unabridged audio color scheme
  • Ate Danish Modern: original 1967 hardcover | Dutton edition hardcover | paperback | unabridged audio | alternate unabridged audio color scheme
  • Turned On and Off: original 1968 hardcover | paperback | unabridged audio (secondary color scheme?)
  • Saw Red: paperback | unabridged audio | alternate unabridged audio color scheme
  • Played Brahms: paperback (newer color scheme - the old paperback had a black cover) | unabridged audio (secondary color scheme?)
  • Played Post Office: paperback | large print | unabridged audio
  • Knew Shakespeare: paperback | unabridged audio (secondary color scheme?)
  • Sniffed Glue: paperback | unabridged audio
  • Went Underground: paperback
  • Talked to Ghosts: hardcover | paperback
  • Lived High: paperback (original hardcover navy w/ white lettering)
  • Knew a Cardinal: paperback (original hardcover maroon w/ white lettering)
  • Moved a Mountain: paperback (original hardcover was turquoise w/ white lettering)
  • Wasn't There: paperback (original hardcover was yellow w/ blue lettering)
  • Went into the Closet: paperback (original hardcover was green w/ white lettering) | large print
  • Came to Breakfast: paperback
  • Blew the Whistle: paperback
  • Said Cheese: hardcover | paperback
  • Tailed a Thief: paperback | large print
  • Sang for the Birds: hardcover | large print
  • Saw Stars: hardcover | paperback
  • Robbed a Bank: hardcover | unabridged audiocassette (art by Nick Geary)
  • Smelled a Rat: hardcover
  • Went Up the Creek: hardcover

  (Note: cover art for alternate or subsidiary versions of the books - audiobooks, paperbacks issued after hardbacks, etc. - isn't included if it doesn't significantly differ from the original cover design.)

• Other US Covers:
  • the Knew Shakespeare/Sniffed Glue/Went Underground combined volume cover
  • the Talked to Ghosts/Lived High/Knew a Cardinal combined volume cover
  • the Wasn't There/Went into the Closet/Came to Breakfast combined volume cover
  • the Moved a Mountain/Blew the Whistle/Said Cheese combined volume cover
  • the The Cat Who Put Four in a Box set cover (argh, I forget which books this has in it - they're early ones, though)
  • the The Cat Who Had 14 Tales cover
  • the cover for Short and Tall Tales (thanks to Geoffrey Williams for the gorgeous scan!)
  • the front cover for the reviewer's preview copy of Short and Tall Tales (note the typo - "Quilleran")
  • the back cover for the reviewer's preview copy of Short and Tall Tales
  • the accompanying publisher's letter for the reviewer's preview copy of Short and Tall Tales (The publicist's contact information has been mosaiced out.)
  • the cover for The Cat Who...Companion first edition (scanned from my well-worn copy, so the image quality might not be the greatest)
  • the cover for The Cat Who...Companion second edition
  • the cover for The Cat Who...Companion third edition (nothing yet bigger than this, I'm afraid)
  • the cover for The Cat Who...Cookbook
  • the cover for the Lilian Jackson Braun: A Reader's Checklist and Reference Guide

• UK Covers for The Cat Who...:

  Could Read Backwards	Ate Danish Modern	Turned On and Off
  Saw Red	Played Brahms	Played Post Office
  Knew Shakespeare	Sniffed Glue	Went Underground
  Talked to Ghosts	Lived High	Knew a Cardinal
  Moved a Mountain	Wasn't There	Went into the Closet
  Came to Breakfast	Blew the Whistle	Said Cheese
  Tailed a Thief	Sang for the Birds	Saw Stars
  Robbed a Bank	Smelled a Rat	Went up the Creek

  • UK Crime Club 1st edition Could Read Backwards hardcover

• French Covers for The Cat Who...:

  Could Read Backwards	Ate Danish Modern	Turned On and Off
  Saw Red	Played Brahms	Played Post Office
  Knew Shakespeare	Sniffed Glue	Went Underground
  Talked to Ghosts	Lived High	Knew a Cardinal
  Moved a Mountain	Wasn't There	Went into the Closet
  Came to Breakfast	Blew the Whistle	Said Cheese
  Tailed a Thief	Sang for the Birds	Saw Stars
  SRobbed a Bank

  Why folk-art cats? Why such generic folk-art cats? The French got short-changed, IMO.

• German Covers for The Cat Who...*:

  Could Read Backwards	Ate Danish Modern*	Turned On and Off*
  Saw Red	Played Brahms	Played Post Office
  Knew Shakespeare	Sniffed Glue	Went Underground
  Talked to Ghosts	Lived High	Knew a Cardinal
  Moved a Mountain	Wasn't There	Went into the Closet
  Came to Breakfast	Blew the Whistle	Said Cheese
  Tailed a Thief	Sang for the Birds	Saw Stars
  Robbed a Bank	Smelled a Rat

  * - I was able to get nice 'n' big cover pics from Amazon's German site for most of the books and some from *two* generous fellows named Joël and Dominik; the ones that're still stuck in the tiny 'n' small form are denoted with an asterisk. Two personal observations: 1) these covers look real neat from afar, but some of them look rather tacky up close. They need a better substance for (and less liberal hand with) their fake blood. Some of them are nicely done, though (Played Brahms, Saw Red, Saw Stars). 2) The images on some of the covers give away plot points. I really don't think that they needed to put the list of victims on the cover of Went Underground.

  • the German 14 Tales cover
  • the German Companion cover
  • the German Could Read Backwards/Ate Danish Modern/Turned On and Off combined volume cover

• Dutch Covers for The Cat Who...:

  Could Read Backwards	Ate Danish Modern	Turned On and Off
  Saw Red	Played Brahms	Played Post Office
  Knew Shakespeare	Sniffed Glue	Went Underground
  Talked to Ghosts	Lived High	Knew a Cardinal
  Moved a Mountain	Wasn't There	Went into the Closet
  Came to Breakfast	Blew the Whistle	Said Cheese
  Tailed a Thief	Sang for the Birds	Saw Stars
  Robbed a Bank	Smelled a Rat

  • the Dutch 14 Tales cover
  • a pic of the box for a Dutch omnibus of some of the earlier books

  A great many of the covers here are taken from the Dutch-language fan site De Kat Die Online Was.

• Other Covers:
  • the Australian Sang for the Birds cover (cover art indeed same as British hardback - thanks to Tina for confirming)
  • the Brazilian Knew a Cardinal cover
  • the Italian Knew Backwards cover
  • the Spanish Could Read Backwards cover (cover art same as UK)
  • the Spanish Turned On and Off cover
  • the Spanish Saw Red cover
  • the Spanish Played Brahms cover
  • four most-probably Turkish covers: 1, 2, 3, & 4 (The page where I found them is here) Thanks to Chris and Fiona Jackson for the assist!

Reader's Digest Condensed Books Illustrations:

• The Cat Who Went into the Closet:
  • Qwilleran and Yum Yum, comfy-cozy, wonder...
  • ...what Koko is up to
  • Polly and Qwill meet over a punch bowl
  • The three sleuths ponder Celia Robinson's letter
  • Un chat...
  • ...deux chats
  • Nancy Inchpot says, "Mush!"
  • Koko stands pat, mystery solved
    
    
  
  
• The Cat Who Said Cheese:
  • Koko str-r-e-tch-ch-es
  • Koko in an alert pose
  • Qwill spots Onoosh near his cabin!
  • Koko poses yet again
  • "Brekekekex ko-ax ko-ax"
  • Koko has his back to the artist because he's sick of being painted
    
    
  
  
• The Cat Who Tailed a Thief:
  • Koko's tail end
  • a silhouette of the three sleuths
    
    

• the Mackintosh tartan
• the Mackintosh clan badge - not the coat of arms, as I had previously described this pic! Thanks to Crystal for pointing this out!
• OK, this is the Mackintosh coat of arms! Thanks, Eileen!
• Edward MacDowell, nineteenth-century composer (Why is a picture of this fellow here, you ask? Well, in one of the later installments, Polly Duncan notes that Qwill's moustache looks just like his. The photo, however, shows only MacDowell's profile. Bah.)
• a better pic of MacDowell that actually shows his moustache - thanks, Kate!
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Braun's (and Qwilleran's) favorite designer (Polly in Robbed a Bank says that Qwill's moustache resembles Mackintosh's. I don't see it, do you? At least from this picture - Mackintosh's 'stache is so small...)
• a dinky Charles Rennie Mackintosh rose (looks like a cross between a Frank Lloyd Wright design and the Rose Crest from the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime to me. Not to be confused with the breed of rose named after the architect!)
• Greer Garson, film idol (And why is she here, you ask? Well, Robbed a Bank notes that Qwilleran's mother greatly resembled Ms. Garson "but with larger eyes".)
• Castle Maus, on the Rhein (learn more!)
• Lilian Jackson Braun, our heroine!
• a more recent photo of the author
• a even more recent photo of a feisty Braun (could that be Koko III?)
• a large and beautiful photo of LJB, courtesy of reporter Geoffrey Williams
• a photo of (I'm guessing) Koko the Great for the first edition of Backwards (thanks, Stephanie!)
• LJB's throw rug (another view) and writing table (another view), believe it or not. (She donated them to an auction to benefit Steps to Hope, a charity assisting victims of domestic abuse in Polk County, North Carolina. I unfortunately caught wind of the auctions too late to cover them, but I can provide Steps to Hope's address, should you wish to contribute: Steps to Hope, P. O. Box 518, Columbus, NC, 28722, 704-894-2340.) That's Braun's own work on the rug, BTW - which is a hooked rug, not a knitted one, as I earlier stated. Thanks to Pat for the correction!

• By Jennifer:
  • Yum Yum sits contentedly

• By S. C. Mollmann:
  • "Cats are cats...the whole world over"

• By Kate F.:
  • A homemade Cat Who... bookmark! Print it out! (Kate's homepage, BTW, is here.)

• By Lara:
  • Just who are the real visitors here...?

  Webpage Decorations (Free for the Taking):
  
  • a montage of all 21 (well, the first 21 - this needs updating) U.S. Cat Who... covers (note: this is too bright for use as straight-out webpage background; I'd only recommend it as either on "off-set" for a table. For better wallpaper, try...)
  • a lighter version of the montage (use dark text), and
  • a darker version of the montage (use light text)
  Desktop Wallpaper (Installation Help):
  
  • The 3 sleuths ponder a letter
  • Qwill sits with Yum Yum
  
  

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