Helen Borten II

 

Helen Borten's 'Copy Cat', originally published in1962, and republished in 2016 by Flying Eye Books. Helen was born in Philadephia, PA in 1930. She attended the Philadephia Museum College of Art for four years. She is a free lance artist and illustrator of 12 children's books, 'Copy Cat' was her sixth, She lives in New York City. 

Copy Cat tells the story of Algernon Longwhisker the Third, a dissatisfied cat who tries to live up to his illustrious forebears by imitating every other animal on the farm. After failing to make a good rooster,  sheep, squirrel, bird, or tree, Copycat that to be loved, he just has to be himself.