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Mir
Sep 17, 2014 rated it liked it
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I'll have to read some other versions of this story, since I gather that some of them have a supernatural or religious element that is totally absent here. In this version, a poor boy who sells fish shares some with a cat, who repays his kindness by sitting outside beckoning customers when the boy must stay home to care for his sick father.

The illustrations are okay but kind of cartoony, and, um, wow, I feel awkward saying this, probably I'm oversensitive and the author is I'm sure totally not
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