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Title | Catwings
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Author | Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cover Art | S.D. Schindler
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Publisher | Orchard Books - 1999
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First Printing | 1988
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Title | Catwings Return
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Author | Ursula K. Le Guin
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Title | Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
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Title | Jane on Her Own
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Author | Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cover Art | S.D. Schindler
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Publisher | Orchard Books - 1999
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First Printing | Orchard Books - 1999
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Category | Children
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Jane, Thelma, Harriet, Roger and James
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Main Elements | Anthropomorphic
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Website | www.ursulakleguin.com
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Catwings
Nothing gives an appetite like flying - so the four young tabbies were nearly famished by the time they landed in the woods.
Who knows how far they'd flown from the city and the dumpster of their birth. For that matter, who knows how the cats happened to have wings for flying at all. Mrs. Jane Tabby, their mother, could not explain it, but when life on the streets became too dangerous, it was clear that her dream for the children might someday come true: her Thelma, Harriet, Roger and James could spread their wings if needed and fly up, over the alley, ove the roofs, away.
The day came. But what the four cats found in the woods was at once more frightening, and more lovely, than their mother ever dreamed.
Catwings Return
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
Jane on Her Own
Jane is restless. What's the use of having wings and being able to fly if she never gets to go anywhere or see anything? "It's too dangerous," says her big sister Harriet. "If human beings saw cats with wings, they'd put us in cages." But Jane refuses to listen. There are adventures waiting beyond the farm and she is eager to find them.
And find them she does. She flies to the city - and through the window of a man who makes her a TV star! But her pampered life is too much like a cage. Brave Jane escapes, to seek new friends, old friends, and true freedom.
The first time I glimpse the cover of one of these books I knew I had to read them. I found a couple in the library (a third is on reserve) and enjoyed them immensely. I love cats, and cats with wings sounded so adorable. What with the coronavirus concerns a comfort read was something we all need and what could be cuter than flying kittens? The artwork was wonderful and Le Guin's storytelling skills shine through. It was almost everything I had hoped they would be, I say almost because I had such high expectations of something that would truly take me away to another world that it would have been nearly impossible to meet it. But I know for sure if I was a kid, I would still have those books as an adult, they are wonderful little urban fantasies!
I'm missing the middle two books, so I did miss how Jane (and Alexander for that matter) came to be part of the Catwings family but she was such a spunky and cute character I wanted to open my window and let her into my house for some scritches (my current cat probably would have objected however). So I look forward to when our lives can get back to normal and I can get back out to the libraries and pick up the other two tales.
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