Review: Wyatt Mason on Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”

While cats are serious business in children’s literature—the beheaded Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland; the evil Ginger in the Narnia books; the pride of cats in Old Possum’s Book of Practical ones; the cat of all cats that’s The Cat in the Hat—“serious” literature hasn’t had much truck with them. Along with throw pillows and afghans and vases full o…