The Cat in the Window: And Other Stories of the Cats We Love

by Callie Smith Grant (Editor)

Overview

People love their pets—cats more so than any other (or so the cats would like to think). And if there is anything cat-lovers enjoy almost as much as stroking their beloved feline friends, it's reading about cats. In the tradition and style of her previous smash hits, Callie Smith Grant brings readers a brand-new collection of uplifting stories about the amazing creatures that warm our hearts—and our laps! With stories from Melody Carlson, Jill Eileen Smith, Robert Benson, Kathi Lipp, and many others, The Cat in the Window offers the perfect excuse to curl up on the couch with a furry friend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800721800
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Callie Smith Grant is the editor of A Prince among Dogs, A Dickens of a Cat, and The Dog Next Door. She is also the author of several nonfiction books for young readers and adults as well as many animal-themed stories and poems which can be seen in Guideposts anthologies and in magazines such as Small Farmer's Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction Callie Smith Grant 11

"The Cat in the Window" Callie Smith Grant 15

"Miss Scarlett and Rhett" Vicki Crumpton 23

"The Time-Share Cat" Andrea Doering 27

"Fat Jimmy from Jersey" Alison Hodgson 31

"The Gift of St. Nicholas" Kathryn Ann Mays 37

"My Cat, Big Boy" Mark Muhich 43

"I Thought I Would Slow Down" Ila J. Smith 47

"The Long Road Home" Mary Ann Osborn 51

"For the Love of Sandy" Jill Eileen Smith 59

"The Monk Goes on Retreat" Robert Benson 63

"The Stepcat" Kathi Lipp 69

"Cat from the Land Between" Pamela Allnutt 73

"The Cat Doesn't Even Like the Dog" Donna Acton 79

"Cool Cat, School Cat" Ed Peterson 85

"The Mayor of Dreher Avenue" Donna Hollingsworth Pam Lione 91

"Kit Kat the Comforter" Lonnie Hull DuPont 97

"About a Boy" Alison Hodgson 105

"Liar, Liar, Shades of Gray" Cindy Crosby 113

"A Different Kind of Cat" Sandy Cathcart 121

"Lost in Translation" April McGowan 127

"On a Farm" Andrea Doering 133

"Blossom" Marilyn Guidinger 137

"An Uncanny Cat Story" Melody Carlson 141

"The Subway Kitten" Kathi Lipp 145

"Fetching Ez" David Manuel 151

"Small and Mighty, Great and Good" Jeanette Thomason 159

"Buster's Heaven on Earth" Cathy E. Watkins 169

"How an Abandoned Cat Changed My Life" Dusty Rainbolt 175

Acknowledgments 181

Notes 183

About the Contributors 185