Washington:
The Bidens’ canine grabbed headlines with their unhealthy habits, however “First Feline” Willow is getting a guide all to herself.
First Girl Jill Biden has written a kids’s story in regards to the short-haired tabby’s journey from a farm in Pennsylvania to the White Home in 2022.
With a June publication date, “Willow the White Home Cat” will come out 4 months earlier than President Joe Biden faces a bitter political catfight for reelection with Donald Trump.
“As Willow bounds from room to room, exploring historical past in her new residence, she learns shortly about all the unbelievable individuals who make the ‘Individuals’s Home’ run,” Jill Biden mentioned in an announcement by means of writer Simon and Schuster.
“Making many new mates alongside the way in which, Willow’s journey provides the world a ‘cats-eye’ view of all of the ins and outs of America’s most well-known deal with.”
Willow is the final remaining presidential pet on the White Home after two of the Bidens’ canine have been eliminated following a collection of biting incidents.
Commander, a German Shepherd who arrived as a pup in 2021, was despatched to stay elsewhere after he bit a number of Secret Service brokers. One other canine of the identical breed, Main, went to stay with household mates after related biting incidents.
The Bidens’ beloved canine Champ died in 2021 on the age of 13.
In the meantime, Willow herself has political chops. Like Jill Biden she hails from Pennsylvania, which will probably be a key battleground state in November’s election. She is called after the First Girl’s hometown, Willow Grove.
Jill Biden, 72, co-wrote the guide with creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli and illustrated by artist Kate Berube, the publishers mentioned.
The White Home has a protracted historical past of presidential pets — even when cats are a relative rarity — and quite a lot of them had literary journeys.
First Women Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush each wrote books about their pets.
Trump, who’s aiming for a sensational White Home comeback, was the primary president since Andrew Jackson within the 1830s to not have pets.
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