Claude Monet’s Giverny abode was once home to a glazed biscuit cat, which friends remember was positioned to appear as if it was curled up on a pillow in the artist’s dining room couch. After ...

In the book, the cat—named Chika—comes alive to explore Monet’s paintings. Chika causes chaos at a picnic lunch, gets lost in the smog of a train station and makes a splash in the lily pond.

Lily Murray, illus. by Becky Cameron. Random House Studio, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-30613-0 This gentle fantasy’s premise hinges on an actual porcelain cat figurine that Claude Monet (1840 ...