This is not a painting of a little boy and a kitten.
Second book is being published about a refugee boy and his kitten (profits to be donated to refugee and orphaned children and animals).
It is a little boy holding a kitten, rendered almost entirely on the warm end of the spectrum: his skin is peachy, his hair strawberry-blond, pants brown, the kitten orange, an indeterminate earthen environment framing the pair of them.
A Bellmore Boy Scout found a kitten, which he adopted.
In another, the teacher read a story called "Spaghetti," about a lonely boy who finds a kitten that smells of noodles.
It's about Kitten, and boy does this Los Angeles-band purr.
The kitten (a boy we've named "Pete" after the children's book character) very quickly adapted to domestic life, proving to be not only friendly but affectionate.
The boy here, knowing the kitten's fate is ultimately not his to decide, takes comfort in his awful helplessness from the very creature he seeks to protect: he rubs his cheek against its soft fur, consoling himself with its touch.
Your boy Mike Thornton is holding that kitten in a pose that's halfway between a Bond villain and Lennie from Of Mice and Men.
Cynical and greedy Kitten accepts the boys' offerings and is none too concerned about the dirty means of getting them.
