Nine Lives: A Journal for My Cat [Spiral-bound]

Louise Reinoehl Max (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

From its practical Cat-alog of Kitty's Vital Statistics to pages dedicated to The Great Hunter..."Trophies" My Cat Has Brought Me! or My Cat's Inner Kitten, Nine Lives joyfully captures the experience of life with kitty. The reader will eagerly fill in this scrapbook's pages with all the details of their favorite puss, and look forward to pasting in their own photographs to complement the sweet and funny--and as quirky as kitty--full-color illustrations that run throughout its pages. Feline-lovers everywhere will pounce on this irresistible opportunity to create a lasting treasure of anecdotes and memorabilia around that furry critter they can't wait to come home to.

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From its practical Cat-alog of Kitty's Vital Statistics to pages dedicated to The Great Hunter..."Trophies" My Cat Has Brought Me! or My Cat's Inner Kitten, Nine Lives joyfully captures the experience of life with kitty. The reader will eagerly fill in this scrapbook's pages with all the details of their favorite puss, and look forward to pasting in their own photographs to complement the sweet and funny--and as quirky as kitty--full-color illustrations that run throughout its pages. Feline-lovers everywhere will pounce on this irresistible opportunity to create a lasting treasure of anecdotes and memorabilia around that furry critter they can't wait to come home to. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 80 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers; 1St Edition edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879058897
• ISBN-13: 978-0879058890
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,821,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the Better Albums Out There, August 28, 2003

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Kelly A. Garbato "www.easyvegan.info" (Kearney, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Lives: A Journal for My Cat (Spiral-bound)

"Nine Lives" is a photo album for cats. The pages feature different themes (for instance, "Cant' Catch Me", "Mother Nature", and "The Discriminating Palate"), each with corresponding graphics (e.g., the "'Fraidy Cat!" section has pictures of cats with their fur on end). Each page is covered with graphics and a colorful background; while this makes the album attractive to look at, it also leaves a little less room for pictures. My solution was to place photos over the graphics that I wasn't too fond of.

The album is meant mostly for photos; there are very few places that are designated specifically for writing - though I suppose you could still write on them if you'd prefer. None of the pages are lined for script.

The pages are sturdy and durable. The book is spiral-bound, which makes it easier to attach photos to the pages (i.e., you don't have a crease where pages are bound together at the spine). However, the wire spiral is designed so that some of the back pages come undone if you're not careful. I've tried to tighten the spirals, to no avail.

"Nine Lives" is about as big as a medium-sized book; the largest photos it will fit are approximately 5.5"x8.5". It has a hard cover that wraps around the spiral binding so that it isn't visible.

I've found that the best way to stick photos to the pages are by using mounting stickers on the backs of the photos along with one-sided corners for reinforcement.

I've bought a number of companion animal albums, and "Nine Lives" is by far the best I've found as of yet, despite its flaws. The canine version is "Dog Days: A Scrapbook for My Best Friend", by Kate Madsen.

4.0 out of 5 stars Previous version better, January 25, 2007

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S. Hein - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Lives: A Journal for My Cat (Hardcover)

I have a copy of this edition and a copy of the old (1999) edition. I prefer the old edition to this one because of the binding type. The old version has a spiral binding and this one has a regular book binding. It is harder to add pictures without the book becoming thicker on one side than the other.

Other than the binding, I love this book. It is a great place to put the pictures of my cat to remember her.