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demmiblue

(39,939 posts)
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 03:28 PM Mar 2024

Jill Biden Gives a 'Cat's-Eye View' in New Picture Book About the White House Cat



Dr. Jill Biden is writing a new book about a close feline friend.

The First Lady, 72, announced that she will be publishing the children’s book, Willow the White House Cat, this summer. The book is cowritten with award-winning children’s author Alyssa Satin Capucilli and illustrated by Kate Berube, and will be published by Paula Wiseman Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.

The book follows Willow, the Biden family’s tabby cat, and her adjustment to living in the White House after she was adopted from a farm in Pennsylvania. Willow soon discovers that there is much to explore in her new home in D.C., and new people to meet at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as well.

“As Willow bounds from room to room, exploring history in her new home, she learns quickly about all of the incredible people who make the ‘People’s House’ run,” Biden said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

https://people.com/jill-biden-new-picture-book-about-cat-willow-8620622




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Jill Biden Gives a 'Cat's-Eye View' in New Picture Book About the White House Cat (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2024 OP
💕🐈‍⬛💕 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2024 #1
K&R - nt Ohio Joe Mar 2024 #2
KnR Hekate Mar 2024 #3
good luck and looks cute . AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #4
Wouldn't it be great DENVERPOPS Mar 2024 #5
I'd purchase this book! Niagara Mar 2024 #6
How long until Trump claims that it's an illegal, rapist, terrorist, drugrunner. immigrant cat. Ping Tung Mar 2024 #7
CROOKED WILLOW BUDEN DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ON THE RUG ALL THE TIME. emulatorloo Mar 2024 #8
... Sky Jewels Mar 2024 #12
No, that was Trump. GoCubsGo Mar 2024 #17
I figured Florida is working hard to get it banned Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #15
I think it should have been illustrated by DU's own tblue37 rurallib Mar 2024 #9
I wonder if this can be pre-ordered. I will certainly buy it when it's available. I think my granddaughter will love it. Tess49 Mar 2024 #10
Hooray for cats! Sky Jewels Mar 2024 #11
Until I moved in with Mrs. Breath I'd never lived with a cat Xavier Breath Mar 2024 #16
I found it on Amazon. Will be released in June. I bought it! Tess49 Mar 2024 #13
A few pics/pages from the book: demmiblue Mar 2024 #14
Oh, that sounds and looks wonderful! I can't wait to see it! liberalla Mar 2024 #18
It looks like a really cute book. 😻 🤩 nt Raine Mar 2024 #19
Wait... those illustrations aren't from a cats eye view. IcyPeas Mar 2024 #20
Jill is a great FLOTUS and makes me more proud of her every day. lark Mar 2024 #21
My wife is the reading teacher and school librarian Conjuay Mar 2024 #22

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
5. Wouldn't it be great
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 04:15 PM
Mar 2024

if all 70 million Biden Voters bought a copy.......and kept it at the top of the Best Sellers List for months all the way to the election, just to F with Repubs, Trump, and his merry band of Trumphumpers????????

Makes no difference to me, I don't own a cat, I am strictly a Dog person, but I would buy it just to get in the Repubs faces......

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
7. How long until Trump claims that it's an illegal, rapist, terrorist, drugrunner. immigrant cat.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 04:24 PM
Mar 2024

Smuggled in on Air Force One from Nepal.

Farmer-Rick

(12,783 posts)
15. I figured Florida is working hard to get it banned
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 05:18 PM
Mar 2024

I hope all Republicons ban it. There is nothing like banning a book in America that increases sales so much.

Just ask Michael Moore.

rurallib

(64,821 posts)
9. I think it should have been illustrated by DU's own tblue37
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 04:48 PM
Mar 2024

the pictures would be fun and show the real nature of cats

Tess49

(1,623 posts)
10. I wonder if this can be pre-ordered. I will certainly buy it when it's available. I think my granddaughter will love it.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 04:50 PM
Mar 2024
 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
11. Hooray for cats!
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 04:56 PM
Mar 2024

I get so damn sick of the Dogs Good/Cats Bad propaganda that we're all subjected too all. the. damn. time.

Kitties are the absolute best!

Xavier Breath

(6,674 posts)
16. Until I moved in with Mrs. Breath I'd never lived with a cat
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 05:24 PM
Mar 2024

and for the most part only tolerated them when forced to occupy the same space. My family were dog people, and I was raised with one and never had a cat so my exposure to cats was limited. But, I've been living with cats for some time now and I must admit, they are sooooo much easier to care for.

IcyPeas

(25,779 posts)
20. Wait... those illustrations aren't from a cats eye view.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:11 PM
Mar 2024

I'm a teeny weeny bit ever so slightly disappointed. LOL




lark

(26,112 posts)
21. Jill is a great FLOTUS and makes me more proud of her every day.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 09:03 AM
Mar 2024

I love that she wrote a childrens' book about their White House cat - Willow.

Conjuay

(3,105 posts)
22. My wife is the reading teacher and school librarian
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 10:03 AM
Mar 2024

I think I will pre-order a copy and donate it to the school.
She says that the kids love animal books-
"Willow" will go on the shelf next to "And Tango Makes Three".
When you live in the desantis state, you just wait around until they ban a kids book, buy a copy and donate it to the school.
-not that they will find a reason to ban this one, but you never know...

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