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Gr 1–5—On a dark night, a white cat enters an abbey, his lithe form slinking down the stone hallways until he spies a warm yellow light spilling out from under a doorway. Here, after several pages of wordless graphic novel-like panels, readers meet the titular monk, who welcomes the feline into his chambers as he works quietly and carefully, reading his illuminated manuscripts by candlelight. In spare prose gracefully adapted from the anonymous Irish poem, "Pangur Bán," the monk connects his work with that of his pet, Pangur: "The silent hunter, he sits and stares at the wall. He studies the hole that leads to the mouse's home. My own eyes, older and less bright than ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Perhaps best known to us now through Barber and Auden's song "The Monk and His Cat" (there is also a YA novel by Mary Stolz), "Pangur Ban" is a ninth-century Old Irish poem about the simple contentment a monk and a cat find in work and life together. This picture book edition opens wordlessly, with sequential panels showing the cat entering and pro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Pangur Bán" is a ninth-century Old Irish poem about the simple contentment a monk and a cat find in work and life togeth...Log In or Sign Up to Read More