Chapter One of The Blue Cat of Castle Town — a nearly-forgotten Newbery Honor classic from 1949 by Catherine Cate Coblentz, read aloud and illustrated one chapter at a time.
Under a blue moon, a small blue kitten is born in a nest of clover and Queen Anne’s lace. His mother warns him never to listen to the river — but the river has a song, and a dark spell, and a quest in mind for a cat that is blue. This first chapter tells how the town below the mountain came to be, and sends our small blue knight out to find a hearth where his own song will be heard.
Settle in for about twelve minutes. A gentle one for the end of the day — for you, or for a child at bedtime.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
0:13 A Blue Kitten Is Born
1:53 “Do Not Listen to the River”
3:14 The River’s Song
6:20 How Castle Town Began
8:49 The Kitten’s Quest
10:50 “Sing Your Own Song”
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About Lamplight Library: we bring beloved classic children’s books back into the light — narrated, illustrated, and read aloud one chapter at a time. Our narration and pictures are made with AI, used with care: a warm, consistent narrator modeled from a real person (with their permission), and hand-guided illustrations — never churned-out “slop.” The stories themselves are the original, unaltered public-domain texts.
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz (1949) is in the US public domain.
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