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G. A. Puckett
A little-known early 20th-century writer, remembered today for gentle animal stories that were meant to help children feel more kindness toward pets. Her best-known surviving book, Ten Kittens (1919), turns real-life kitten tales into warm, simple reading for young listeners.
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Ten Kittens
by G. A. Puckett
About the author
Very little biographical information about G. A. Puckett appears to be widely documented online, which makes the work itself the clearest window into the author. The title page of Ten Kittens identifies Puckett as the author of Grant’s Old Star, The Story of David, and Thoughts Along the Way, and shows the book was published in Kansas City, Missouri, by Burton Publishing Company in 1919.
In the preface to Ten Kittens, Puckett explains that the stories were drawn from real kitten lives collected from different parts of the country, with the hope of encouraging boys and girls to be kinder to animals. That caring, practical warmth gives the book its charm: the stories are simple, affectionate, and clearly written with young readers in mind.
Because so little confirmed personal history is easily available, G. A. Puckett is best introduced through this surviving work: an author of humane children’s writing whose small book still feels earnest and tender more than a century later.