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We love to read cat books and recently came across this gem called “The True Tails of Baker and Taylor“. We wanted to share their story and contacted the author and her publicist who graciously donated 5 signed copies to us which we raffled off to 5 lucky Purrington Post readers! Contest entry details below.
Lisa Rogak is co-author with the librarian (Jan Louch) who cared for the cats. The cats lived in a small library in an even tinier town while serving as mascots of the Baker & Taylor book distribution company where they appeared on millions of posters, shopping bags, coffee mugs, and in hundreds of ads.
The Setting
When Jan Louch landed her dream job as a librarian at a library in a tiny town well south of Reno, Nevada, she had no way of knowing that the job — particularly the two Scottish Fold cats she “hired” to head up the Rodent Control Department in the early 1980s — would change her life while also raising the spirits of millions of people around the world.
She named the cats Baker and Taylor (after the library wholesaler who she dealt with on a daily basis), and after a few executives at Baker & Taylor offered to use them as company mascots and distributed posters featuring the cats, their fame quickly spread worldwide. Before long, fans were showing up at the library to meet the cats, people from all over the world wrote to request their “pawtograph” — Jan obliged them with a pawprint-shaped rubber stamp and a green inkpad — and a class of second graders in Ohio launched a fan club, all before the Internet had taken hold.
Our own initial attempts to read the book were fraught with ginger curiosity…one of our kitties (Mouse) decided he needed to see what all the fuss was about with Baker & Taylor.
Piqued your interest yet? Spoiler alert…the librarian didn’t do it! >^..^< Be sure to enter the contest.
Contest Entry Guidelines:
This contest ended on June 11th, 2017 and iwas available to residents of the United States and Canada. To enter the contest entrants simply needed to submit a comment in our “Leave a Reply” section at the bottom of the page saying:
If my cat(s) lived in a library the first book they would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) is [name of favorite book] …[feel free to add the reason and your cats names]
The winners were chosen by the author from all the correct entries and contacted by email.
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My cats would probably peruse the Bloom County Anthologies since I spend so much time laughing at my computer screen over Bloom County. I would make sure they understand that Bill the Cat is probably a bad example of behavior, but he’s not a bad cat, just misguided! After those, who knows?
Hattie and George would go straight for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” This is because they live with an obstreperous fox terrier, who is sometimes their playmate and sometimes the object of their corrective discipline.
If my cat Scout lived in a library the first book she would read is to Kill a Mockingbird because it is one of my favourite books and she is named after Scout Finch.
If my cat, Indie, lived in a library the first book he would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) is Sherlock Holmes. He’s named after Indiana Jones, so he LOVES mysteries!
If my cats lived in a library, the first book they would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) is “I could pee on this”. No matter how bad a day you’ve had this book will leave you laughing hysterically
If my cats lived in a library, the first book they would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) is
All About Big Cats – Lions, Tigers, Jaguars, Cheetahs, Leopards and more…because Trillian, Mouse, Lisa, Cookie, Oliver and Binx think they are big cats & they’ve been driving me crazy lately with questions about their ancestry.
for quite a while
about their ancestry.
If my cat, Minerva, lived in a library the first book they would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) is The Great Catsby… or maybe Les Meowserables, followed by Little Meows on The Prairie.. and don’t forget Romeow & Juliet 🙂
If my cat lived in a library the first book she would read (aside from Baker & Taylor) if the shoe fits…as this is the look Miss Cynthia kitty kitten has on her face laying on the center of our kitchen island when we come home . We love our Miss Cynthia kitty kitten very much !
If, my 2 cats lived in a library, they would read the book about Baker & Taylor. Then, they would read through the section to do about all the kitties in the world.
If I were a cat, I’d love living in your library! Baker and Taylor are adorable.