UNCLE ANDY'S CATS BY JAMES WARHOLA

It all started with a little blue pussy cat named Hester. Then along came Sam , and it was love at first sight. All of a sudden there were lots of little Sams , who loved their tall and skinny house. They had fun stampeding through Uncle Andy's art studio and frolicking among his soup boxes. But eventually, when Andy counted twenty-five Sams, he had to wonder... could this be too many cats for one house ?

James Warhola's childhood memories of his famous artist uncle , Andy Warhol ,inspired this humorous story of his house  overrun with cats. Readers will pore over the illustrations trying to spot all twenty five Sams , one blue pussycat and some very clever mice.

Uncle Andy happened to be James Warhola's famous pop artist uncle , Andy Warhol. James and his large family often visited his uncle and grandmother. His childhood memeories of the mysterious Smas served as great inspiration for him to write and illustrate his own tall tale of how it all happened.

About author :

"James Warhola (born March 16, 1955) İs an American artist who has illustrated more than two dozen children's books since 1987.
He wrote and illustrated Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (Putnam, 2003) about his uncle. The book garnered much attention with a feature article in The New York Times and interviews on television and NPR.
Warhola, nephew of the artist Andy Warhol (who dropped the "a" from his last name early in his career), recounts his family's relationship with his famous uncle. Several times a year, he, his siblings, and his parents surprised Andy and his mother with a visit to their home in New York City. Warhol's house, always crammed with all kinds of things, including 25 cats, was a giant playground for the children. But the author's mother considered the place an untamed mess. To her "Gee, Andy, when you going to get rid of this stuff?" he countered, "Ohhh, no. This is art." And indeed, Warhola's text reiterates the theme that art is everywhere, a truth that his mother comes to realize in the end. The large watercolor illustrations usher readers into the New York City of the '60s, the streets crowded with tail-finned cars, the Automat and RKO Palace among the buildings lining the sidewalks, and a store window advertising pork chops for $.39 a pound. Boxes of Campbell's soup, paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and other stars, and many other objects that eventually found their way into Warhol's art abound throughout his house, and a cutaway view of all five floors, with cats peeping out everywhere, will hold readers' interest. In spite of the artist's eccentricities, among them his wigs and his cats, the author's evident admiration for the man who invigorated his own artistic talent shines in this story." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Warhola)