She herself is thinly disguised in the book as Miss Tilley, Oliver's housekeeper, who had been with him since kittenhood, and whose main duty in life (Oliver assumed) was to prepare and serve his meals.Įveryone who has seen the original sketches of Oliver and Marshmallow together has asked the same question: "Did they really act like that?" The answer is that they really did. Newberry discarded the story she had originally planned and instead decided to tell the true story of how Oliver and Marshmallow became friends. What actually happened was so interesting that Mrs. What would happen when he met a live bunny? Could they ever possibly become friends? Neither had Oliver, her personal cat, a large, serious-minded tabby who had led the sheltered life of a Manhattan apartment cat and therefore did not know that the world was full of other animals. But until Marshmallow came to live in her two-room Chelsea apartment, she had never known a rabbit. Newberry, the author-artist of April's Kittens and Mittens, has of course owned many cats.
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