> Skip to content
  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809317
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $39.99

Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub



The first children's book to appear in English by the award-winning
Israeli master storyteller

The first children's book to appear in English by the award-winning
Israeli master storyteller

What happens when a tired boy with a fertile imagination is left to fend for himself at the zoo? Well, if his father is too busy to play and must talk business on his phone, and it's close to naptime, then ... a lot. After freeing sad animals from their cages, the boy takes a ride in an airship with an old turtle and a lazy rhinoceros. Once on board he describes to Habakkuk, the ship's captain, the traits of the rarely seen long-haired cat-boy cub: Long-haired cat-boy cubs need to be played with once an hour to stay alive. Also, you cannot wash a long-haired cat-boy cub in water, they only like to drink juice and chocolate milk, and, most of all, you must listen to a long-haired cat-boy cub's story to the end even if you get a call from work.

Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub is a clever and captivating tale that will appeal to any cub who has busy parents and a busier imagination.

  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809317
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A winner of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, The Camera D’Or, and the Charles Bronfman Prize, he is the author, most recently, of the memoir The Seven Good Years, and story collections like The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God. His work has been translated into forty-two languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among many other publications, and on This American Life, where he is a regular contributor.

Also by Etgar Keret

See all

Praise for Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub

"Keret is a brilliant writer . . . completely unlike any writer I know. He is the voice of the next generation."--Salman Rushdie