Who Will Bell the Cat?

This article is about the picture book. For the fable, see Belling the Cat.

Who Will Bell the Cat? is a 2018 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack. Based on the fable Belling the Cat, it was published by Holiday House and is illustrated by Christopher Cyr. It concerns a group of mice who nurse back to health an ungrateful terrifying cat called Marmalade, make a bell and collar warning device, and how they manage to collar the cat with it.

Who Will Bell the Cat?

Front cover
Author	Patricia McKissack
Illustrator	Christopher Cyr
Cover artist	Christopher Cyr
Language	English
Genre	Children's picture book
Published	2018 (Holiday House, New York)
Publication place	USA
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	40 (unpaginated)
ISBN	9780823437009
OCLC	1037155724

Reception

A review in Publishers Weekly of Who Will Bell the Cat? wrote "Lush, cinematic illustrations add drama to the late McKissack’s retelling of Aesop’s classic fable."^[1] and Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, compared it to The Rescuers.^[2]

Who Will Bell the Cat? has also been reviewed by Booklist,^[3] School Library Journal.^[4] The Horn Book Magazine,^[5] and BookPage.^[6]

It is a 2018 Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book,^[7] and a 2018 Chicago Tribune Best Children's Book of the Year.^[8]