Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the eponymous hero of a series of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972 by various publishers including Country Life.
His family consist of his wife Grace, and three kittens: Blanche, Pansy and Tinkle.
In A Seaside Holiday Orlando and his family stay in the town of 'Owlbarrow', a thinly disguised version of Aldeburgh on the coast of Suffolk: many of the illustrations feature landmarks in the town.
Books in the series are;
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): A Camping Holiday (1938)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): A Trip Abroad (1939)
- Orlando's Evening Out (1941)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Buys a Farm (1942)
- Orlando's Home Life (1942)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): His Silver Wedding (1944)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Becomes a Doctor (1944)
- Orlando's Invisible Pyjamas (1947)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Keeps a Dog (1949)
- Orlando the Judge (1950)
- Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. A Seaside Holiday (1952)
- Orlando's Zoo (1954)
- Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): The Frisky Housewife (1956)
- Orlando's Magic Carpet (1958)
- Orlando's Country Peepshow (1959)
- Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Buys a Cottage (1963)
- Orlando and the Three Graces (1965)
- Orlando Goes to the Moon (1968)
- Orlando and the Water Cats (1972)
Famous quotes containing the word marmalade:
“If a man liked his eggs half-boiled, she would bear it in her mind for ever. She would know the proper day for making this marmalade and that preserve; and she would never lose her good looks for a moment when she was doing these things. With her little dusting-brush at her girdle, no eyes that knew anything, would ever take her for aught but a lady.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)