The first half of season 2 premiered on June 26, 2020. A Valentine's Day special called Pete the Cat: A Very Groovy Valentine's Day was released on February 6, 2020. The second half of season 1 was released on August 9, 2019. The clips were later taken down in July 2019, but were reuploaded one month later. Throughout June–July 2019, clips from then-unreleased episodes from season 1 were uploaded to the Pete the Cat YouTube channel. A second season began production as of February 2019. There are tie-in books based on the TV series. The series also has a Christmas special called Pete the Cat: A Very Groovy Christmas which was released on November 20, 2018, guest starring Dave Matthews and Jason Mraz. It was followed by a Pete the Cat series, based on the books and developed by Phineas and Ferb co-creator Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, which was released on September 21, 2018. Additional voices were provided by Atticus Shaffer, KT Tunstall, and Don Was. Jacob Tremblay starred as the title character, with his parents voiced by Elvis Costello and Diana Krall. On December 26, 2017, an animated holiday special, Pete the Cat: A Groovy New Year, was released on Amazon Prime. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes is one of the books included in that list. In 2010, the Georgia Center for the Book released a list titled, '25 Books All Young Georgians Should Read'. James Dean and wife Kimberly Dean continue to write and illustrate the Pete the Cat series, now over 60 books, together. The collaboration between Dean and Litwin ended in 2011. Litwin wrote a story about and a song for the cat, and the two began a partnership. The book uses a character first devised by James Dean, an artist active in Atlanta, who drew up Pete in 1999 and in 2006 self-published The Misadventures of Pete the Cat. ĭean holding up his original drawing of Pete the Cat at the 2013 Mazza Museum Summer Conference Eric') is an American storyteller and musician from Atlanta, Georgia. Author and illustrator Įric Litwin (also known as 'Mr. It rose to number 8 on the New York Times Best Seller list for picture books. The book was self-published in 2008 and sold 7,000 copies in 10 months before it was picked up by HarperCollins – alerted by a YouTube meme in which two little girls read the book – and distributed throughout the United States and Canada. Then he steps in a bucket of water and the colors wash off, and they become wet, but still never loses his cool, he just sings his song. The first book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, is the story of a cat named Pete whose white shoes get mucked up by various substances he steps in, but 'Pete never loses his cool.' Written as a song, its refrain is 'I love my white shoes', changing to 'I love my red shoes', 'I love my blue shoes', and 'I love my brown shoes'.

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