2020 – My Cat Jeoffry Bookstore and Cat Lounge

Another Interspecies Friendship – this Time at The Gentle Barn

By TJ December 20, 2020Animal Rescues, Animal Sanctuaries

photo from FoxLA.com We love this sweet story of the friendship between a calf and a dog at The Gentle Barn, founded by Ellie Laks. Her memoir about starting this wonderful sanctuary is one of our favorite books!

MY CAT JEOFFRY is Now Selling Audiobooks and eBooks!

By TJ December 9, 2020Audiobooks, Books, eBooks

We are now selling audio and ebooks! For audiobooks, please visit our Libro.fm page where you can sign up for an account and buy books either via a membership or a la carte, and support us! We personally love audiobooks! We listen to them in the car on either…

Holiday Gift List

By TJ December 5, 2020Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Fiction, Horses, Marine Animals, Memoir, Middle-Grade, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Teens, Wild Animals

Books that make a perfect present for the animal lover!

WILD HORSES OF THE WEST by Jan Drake

By TJ November 29, 2020Horses1 Comment

Wild Horses of the West by Jan Drake is a gorgeous, enchanting coffee-table book filled with breathtaking photographs. I learned so much about the amazing lives of these beautiful wild horses, mainly of the Utah desert, both through close examination of Drake's luscious, detailed photographs and by her text.

A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS by W. Bruce Cameron

By TJ November 28, 2020Dogs, Fiction1 Comment

You can always rely on W. Bruce Cameron for a heartwarming story with compelling characters - both animal and human - and a happy ending. We knew we would love A DOG'S PERFECT CHRISTMAS, which we read in one evening.

Story-Time with Irina: SAUCY by Cynthia Kadohata and SKUNK AND BADGER by Amy Timberlake

By TJ September 26, 2020Books, Fiction, Middle-Grade

We LOVED Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata! Saucy is a middle-grade novel (ages 8 on up) about a pig named Saucy - who is very saucy indeed! - and her family.

Duke and Rex and Interspecies Friendship

By TJ September 21, 2020Animal Sanctuaries, Farm Animals

Duke and Rex, a special needs calf and chicken, become friends at a farm sanctuary. A true story!

Story Time with Irina: A WHALE OF THE WILD, by Rosanne Parry

By TJ September 1, 2020Books, Fiction, Marine Animals, Middle-Grade, Wild Animals

We just finished this fun, adventurous, and very enlightening kids' book (ages 8-12) called A Whale of the Wild, written by Rosanne Parry and illustrated by Lindsay Moore. It's about two orcas (we've heard some call them "killer whales" but they don't seem that scary to us) - a sister, Vega, and her little brother, Deneb.

THE CAT I NEVER NAMED by Amra Sabic-El-Reyess and Laura L. Sullivan

By TJ August 26, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction, Teens

Katusha with our copy of the book - a digital advance copy from Bloomsbury Wow. This is a stunning, eye-opening, un-put-downable memoir about a teenage girl and her family struggling to survive the 1990s genocide in Bosnia. Amra is Muslim and when the Serbs invade her country, and her…

Our Bookshop Store is Up!

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Bookstore Updates

We finally have our Bookshop store up! It's a work in progress, and I'm constantly adding new books I find or remember, but it's finally up and running. If you like print books, please consider buying through our page there. All proceeds go back to the organization since we…