Move over Grumpy Cat and Garfield, there’s a new cat in town! Haughty housecat Your Highness expects nothing short of the royal treatment and delights in reminding his “kiddo” who’s really in charge. The kiddo in question does his best to accommodate Your Highness’s whims, but is only promoted to “General of Poop Scooping” for his efforts. Illustrated in a composite style of simple comics and classic Chinese art, My Cat Hates Me follows the daily exploits of a petulant “purr-sonality,” his canine sidekick Bubba Boo and their long-suffering artist owner. Granted, you don’t always want to follow a cat’s example. Just because there’s a glass on the table it doesn’t mean that you should poke at it until it goes crashing to the ground. It’s probably easier to pick it up and carry it back to the kitchen. Shout-out to cats’ ingrained tidiness though, even if I wish their agent-of-chaos quality (which, let’s face it, is part and parcel of being a cat) would manifest in a less destructive way. Another thing about cats: they are cute and regal, even when they aren’t. Even the homeliest of cats go about the world as if they’re God’s gift to the planet. Put a cat on a book cover, and its supreme confidence and distinct “bow down to me, you human peasant” attitude will make the book itself more majestic. (I don’t make the rules, okay, I only write about them.) But not all cat book covers are created equal. Sometimes, they will be cute. Sometimes threatening. Maybe even unsettling (my favorites!). In this post, and following the lead of this article based on the We Rate Dogs model, I will explore eight majestic cat book covers. Would you like to read more books about cats? What about animal books in general?
