Stray - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744590620 ISBN 13: 9780744590623

Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks

Synopsis

Pufftail is an independent, resourceful, immensely charming gentleman of the road, whose picaresque experiences - some comic, other sad - should amuse, move, shock and entertain readers.

About this title

About the Author

A.N. Wilson is a confirmed cat-lover, saying, "I can think of many ways in which I would be a better person if I were more like my cats, but I cannot think of a single way in which my cats would be better for being more like me." A distinguished novelist, biographer and journalist, A.N. Wilson has won several prestigious awards. Stray was his first book about cats - he has since written a picture book, The Tabitha Stories about the daughter of "the stray", Pufftail - and he is also the author of another animal story, Hazel the Guinea-pig.

From School Library Journal

Grade 6 Up-- Told from the point of view of an old cat talking to his grandkitten, this fantasy laced with playful satire will give readers insight into feline as well as human psychology. An independent stray cat relates a life story which is filled with adventure after adventure. Human behavior is a mystery to him, and he has trouble understanding some human habits, such as putting smoking chimneys in their mouths. Pufftail has had his share of experience with the evil sides of both human and feline natures; he has been thrown out of a moving car with his brother, who was killed in the fall; has been used as a guinea pig in a cosmetic laboratory; and was forced into a cat brotherhood under the control of "Old Tom" and his thugs. He has known, however, some "well-meaning two-footers" who were kind to him, as well as the love of a good cat. His daughter, Tabitha, like her father, is a sprightly, kind-hearted feline who maintains her independent spirit even though she is kept by humans. Readers will not have to be animal lovers to enjoy the humor or to admire the fiesty gentleness and fierce independence of this old cat who has spent his life searching for the meaning of feline life and love and is drawn back to his family and to people to find them both. This poignant story will provide readers with some material for thought on the relationship of animals to humans, humanity's responsibility to animals, and our interdependence on those in the : animal kingdom. --Yvonne A. Frey, Peoria Public Library, IL
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Edition details

• Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0744590620
• ISBN 13: 9780744590623
• Binding: Paperback