In an ode to the mysterious power of the black cat Scorpio sage and national treasure, Margaret Atwood writes: “In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes, jumps up ...

Is Bad Cat, a big-city kitty of the streets, truly bad or simply misunderstood? Readers of this kinetic picture-book debut may be left wondering. When he "splotches" paint on a wall (and initially ...