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.

One morning in their comfortable country home, Thelma, Roger, Harriet and James were talking about the city from which they had flown as kittens. They recalled the old dumpster in the alley - and their dear mother. And James and Harriet decided to pay her a visit.

But though they could follow their noses to the smell of the slums, they found no dumpster, no mother - only a fierce, frightened kitten, hiding in a deserted warehouse. A kitten with wings...wings like their own...wings on which to fly from danger, and in search of the cat who was the mother of them all...

Jane meets a new friend in this third book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look!

Fluffy, orange Alexander is the oldest, biggest, loudest, and strongest of all the Furby kittens. Everyone in his family thinks he’s so remarkable that they call him “Wonderful Alexander” and spoil him to pieces. But one morning, when Alexander bravely sets out to explore the world on his own, he finds himself stuck in a tree and unable to get down. It’s up to Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, to rescue him! Now if only Alexander could do something wonderful for her in return…

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.