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Overview

The bestselling Catwings series has been redesigned for Fall 2006!

Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were born with wings, but she's grateful that they are able to use their flying skills to soar away from the dangerous city slums where they were born. However, once the kittens escape the big city, they learn that country life can be just as difficult!

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

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Overview

The bestselling Catwings series has been redesigned for Fall 2006!

Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were born with wings, but she's grateful that they are able to use their flying skills to soar away from the dangerous city slums where they were born. However, once the kittens escape the big city, they learn that country life can be just as difficult!

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Down an alley in a dumpster, Mrs. Jane Tabby gives birth to four kittens. But these are no ordinary offspringeach has a pair of wings. Although Mrs. Tabby is unperturbed by her kittens' appearance, her neighbors are not so charitable; when the kittens are old enough to fly, Mrs. Tabby sends her children out into the world. Because both winged and four-footed creatures mistrust them, the kittens have trouble finding a place to live, but eventually discover a loving home. LeGuin, author of the distinguished Earthsea Trilogy and other books, has written a small gem of a book, with convincing and intriguing characters. Dark watercolor etchings by Schindler further convey the plight of these airborne felines and their seeking of a home. A Richard Jackson Book. Ages 7-10. (September)
Children's Literature
This heartwarming easy reader teaches a parent's perspective: the urge to protect and the drive for a better life for children. The heroine is just an ordinary alley cat, barely surviving in and around trashcans. Then one day, Mrs. Jane Tabby gives birth to a most unusual litter of kittens. Her offspring have wings. Pages of pen and ink, washed softly in pastels tell this dreamy tale.
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School Library Journal
Gr 2-4 At first Mrs. Jane Tabby can't understand why her four kittens have been born with wings. Then she realizes that they will be able to fly away from their dreary and dangerous city neighborhood. (Mrs. T. can't come with them because she is going to marry Mr. Tom Jones, and ``I don't want you children underfoot!'') So the kittens sadly leave their mother and go off into the world. After some mild adventures, they settle in a wooded area and learn to forage for themselves. Then danger appears in the form of a large owl. Luckily at this point Harriet, the smallest kitten, discovers Susan and Hank Brown from a neighboring farm. The tale ends happily with the cats snuggled up to the children and the promise of a safe new home. Cats are always appealing, and winged cats should be doubly so. However, the story barely skirts cuteness; the language has a self-conscious tone which works against the action of the plot. Softly-colored ink drawings add an old-fashioned tone, as do the Victorian names of the cats. Ruth S. Vose, San Francisco Pub . Lib .

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780439551892
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/2/2003
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 61,099
  • Age range: 6 years
  • Lexile: 0700L (what's this?)
  • Series: Catwings Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 4.84 (w) x 6.12 (h) x 0.15 (d)

Meet the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin's first story was rejected by Amazing Stories -- back when she was 11 years old. Since then, Le Guin has become one of science fiction's most critically acclaimed authors, as well as a versatile writer of poetry, children's books, essays, and nonfiction.

Biography

Speculative fiction, magic realism, "slipstream" fiction -- all these terms could apply to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. Unfortunately, none was in common use when she started writing in the early 1960s. As a young writer, Le Guin weathered seven years of rejections from editors who praised her novels' elegant prose but were puzzled by their content. At a time when the only literary fiction was realistic fiction, as Le Guin later told an interviewer for The Register-Guard in Portland, Oregon, "There just wasn't a pigeonhole for what I write."

At long last, two of her stories were accepted for publication, one at a literary journal and one at a science-fiction magazine. The literary journal paid her in copies of the journal; the science-fiction magazine paid $30. She told The Register-Guard, "I thought: 'Oooohhh! They'll call what I write science fiction, will they? And they'll pay me for it? Well, here we go!' "

Le Guin continued to write and publish stories, but her breakthrough success came with the publication of The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. The novel, which tells of a human ambassador's encounters with the gender-changing inhabitants of a distant planet, was unusual for science fiction in that it owed more to anthropology and sociology than to the hard sciences of physics or biology. The book was lauded for its intellectual and psychological depth, as well as for its fascinating premise. "What got to me was the quality of the story-telling," wrote Frank Herbert, the author of Dune. "She's taken the mythology, psychology -- the entire creative surround -- and woven it into a jewel of a story."

Since then, Le Guin has published many novels, several volumes of short stories, and numerous poems, essays, translations, and children's books. She's won an arm's-length list of awards, including both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, and a National Book Award for The Farthest Shore. Over the years, she has created and sustained two fictional universes, populating each with dozens of characters and stories. The first universe, Ekumen, more or less fits into the science-fiction mode, with its aliens and interplanetary travel; the second, Earthsea, is a fantasy world, complete with wizards and dragons. As Margaret Atwood wrote in The New York Review of Books, "Either one would have been sufficient to establish Le Guin's reputation as a mistress of its genre; both together make one suspect that the writer has the benefit of arcane drugs or creative double-jointedness or ambidexterity."

More impressive still is the way Le Guin's books have garnered such tremendous crossover appeal. Unlike many writers of science fiction, she is regularly reviewed in mainstream publications, where her work has been praised by the likes of John Updike and Harold Bloom. But then, Le Guin has never fit comfortably into a single genre. As she said in a Science Fiction Weekly interview, "I know that I'm always called 'the sci-fi writer.' Everybody wants to stick me into that one box, while I really live in several boxes. It's probably hurt the sales of my realistic books like Searoad, because it tended to get stuck into science fiction, where browsing readers that didn't read science fiction would never see it."

Le Guin has also published a translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, a book that has influenced her life and writing since she was a teenager; she has translated fiction by Angelica Gorodischer and a volume of poems by Gabriela Mistral; and, perhaps most gratifyingly for her fans, she has returned to the imaginary realm of Earthsea. Tehanu, which appeared in 1990, was subtitled "The Last Book of Earthsea," but Le Guin found she had more to tell, and she continued with Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind. "I thought after 'Tehanu' the story was finished, but I was wrong," she told Salon interviewer Faith L. Justice. "I've learned never to say 'never.' "

Good To Know

The "K" in Ursula K. Le Guin stands for Le Guin's maiden name, Kroeber. Her father was the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber; her mother, the writer Theodora Kroeber, is best known for the biography Ishi in Two Worlds.

    1. Hometown:
      Portland, Oregon
    1. Date of Birth:
      October 21, 1929
    2. Place of Birth:
      Berkeley, California
    1. Education:
      B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Columbia University, 1952
    2. Website:
      http://www.ursulakleguin.com

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  • Posted January 15, 2012

    Wonderful story for childern

    I bought the series for my granddaughter . I have read it to her many times. Now she understands the halloween costumes I made for her mother and aunt.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 19, 2008

    amazing

    omg i remember reading this series when i as in 3rd grade and i absolutely loved it!! i would definetly recommend this to any kid who wants a good read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 16, 2008

    Beloved Book

    I read this book when I was a child. I remember feeling the sense of wonder it gave me, and how deeply connected I felt with the little kittens. I am 25 now and I am going to buy this book just so I can read it again. Buy this for your child or a loved one, it's beautiful and will put a smile on your face.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 18, 2008

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    ''I suppose their father was a fly by night,' a neighbor said, and laughed unpleasantly, sneaking round the dumpster.' The story 'Catwings' by Ursula K. Le Guin, is about tabby cats with wings. They leave their mother and fly away to live on their own. They landed in the forest and looked after each other. Owl went after Roger and James. Harriet found out that James was hurt badly. Harriet had also seen a human while flying, described with big eyes like their own. Harriet went again and Roger tagged along Then there were two humans there! There was food on the tree stump. They went ahead and helped themselves. Then the other tabbies came and ate. The humans were amazed. There were four winged cats, which they called Catwings. I believe the message of the story is that what seems to be impossible is possible. Never think something is impossible. Anything can happen, at least in imaginations. I really LOVE this story because it is telling readers that anything can happen when I read it. I think readers who like cats would like this book. There are cats as main characters, and they can fly around. I think this is a good book for any person.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 22, 2005

    GO CATWINGS

    I love the Catwings books. Thelma looks just like my cat Dora. I wish she would make more. My favorite book is Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2005

    catwings!

    I read this book a long time ago at a slumber party while everyone else was asleep. I couldn't fall asleep and saw this book on my friend's shelf. So, I read it. It was awesome! The winged kittens were so intriguing - I used to wish my cats could fly.

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