It's Like This, Cat

Emily Cheney Neville (1919-1997) was an American author of realistic children's literature, best known for her debut novel It's Like This, Cat (1963), which won the Newbery Medal in 1964, and other notable works like Berries Goodman (1965, Jane Addams Children's Book Award), The Seventeenth-Street Gang (1966), and Traveler from a Small Kingdom (1968) that depicted urban adolescent life.com