Svetlana Lavrova’s new book “The Year of the Cat” includes two fairy-tale stories: “A Kitten According to a Recipe” and “About the Kitten Kasya and the Evil Spirits.” The main characters of the collection dedicated to the coming Year of the Cat are, of course, kittens, favorites of children and adults, funny and wise, cunning and mischievous, but at the same time invariably charming. The author, Svetlana Lavrova, illustrated this book herself. Her drawings are distinguished by the same quality as her prose: a wonderful sense of humor and a subtle understanding of the characters of all characters, adult and small, four-legged, tailed and feathered, and even... disembodied. On the cover of the new book you will see a portrait of the kitten Kasia - he really exists and lives in the author’s house. When the book was just being conceived, he was that little gray kitten who set off on his exciting journey. But creating a book is a long process, and since then the kitten has grown up. Recommended for children of middle school age. Source: