My seven-year-old niece was traumatized for a while by Dewey, the Library Cat. To be fair, that one was based on a true story, so the cat didn't die to show loss of innocence; the cat died because the cat died.
Ditto for Jenny Lind and Her Listening Cat (a Scholastic book from my youth), but there they had the cat die offstage, and I only realized it was dead because its memory or ghost or something inspired her as an adult.
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Date: 2010-10-06 01:58 am (UTC)Ditto for Jenny Lind and Her Listening Cat (a Scholastic book from my youth), but there they had the cat die offstage, and I only realized it was dead because its memory or ghost or something inspired her as an adult.