Bodega Cat Shadra Strickland And in doting grandmother fashion

And in doting grandmother fashion

and Christmas displays in streets

They always start somewhere

Isidora and Julian

she learns that not all losses are the same

Bodega Cat Shadra Strickland And in doting grandmother fashionA recipient of the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award, Bodega Cat is an ode to New York's iconic feline friend, and the communities they call home. Bodega is a Spanish word for "grocery store," but they are so much more than that. Bodegas are often a community cornerstone, a welcoming neighborhood haven, and in New York, an emblem of the city's cultural diversity. And who knows these treasured institutions better than the cats who run