It's like this, cat

First published in 1963 and winner of the Newbery Award for excellence in children’s literature the following year, “It’s like this, cat” is the charming and engrossing debut novel by American author Emily Cheney Neville. The story centers on the life of Dave Mitchell, a 14-year old boy growing up in New York City in the early 1960s. Dave befriends an eccentric older neighbor, Kate, who takes care of many of the city’s stray cats and he soon adopts an orange-striped tomcat from her. Affecti...