Ethel is old, she is fat, she is black, and she is white. She is also a cat who is very set in her ways. Every day she goes outside to survey the land, monitor the weather, chase villains, and roll on her favorite sidewalk square. But one day, she accidentally rolls in sidewalk chalk and turns blue. She tries to lick her fur clean, but can't get it all off. Not only is Ethel still blue, but now she feels blue, until she meets a kitten named Fluffy. Fluffy has rolled in chalk himself, turning a stunning shade of pink. He helps Ethel see that being different can be a good thing.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc .

Jennifer Black Reinhardt grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania and attended Carnegie Mellon University where she received a degree in illustration. She has illustrated several books for children, including Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park, The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford by Suzanne Slade, and Rabbi Benjamin's Buttons by Alice B. McGinty. Trading the mountains for the prairie, Jennifer now lives in Iowa City, Iowa. She happily works in a comfortably messy studio in her home, where she lives with her family.