Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

“We’ve talked about that,” said Thelma. “Susan and Hank will be here soon. Wait till you meet them!”

And very soon over the hill came a boy and a girl, with a can full of milk and a bag full of kibbles. All the Catwings came swooping about them, and perched on their shoulders and heads and hands and noses, and purred at them, and Susan and Hank laughed at the Catwings and petted them and threw kibbles in the air for them to catch. But then they saw Alexander.

“Look!” they said.

Alexander came toward them rather shyly, waving his tail. It was golden and plumy, like his mother’s tail.

“Oh!” said Susan. “Oh, the poor little kitten! He doesn’t have any wings!”

Her brother, Hank, laughed. “Most kittens don’t, Sooz,” he said.

Susan was already holding Alexander and petting him. Alexander was purring madly.

“Listen, Sooz,” Hank said. “You know Mother has been saying she’d like to have a cat. But she can’t have one of the Catwings, because visitors might see it. If this is a stray kitten…”

So Alexander found himself being carried on Susan’s shoulder over the hill to the farmhouse where the children lived.

There the children’s mother greeted him. “Oh,” she said, “what a wonderful tail! What a wonderful kitten!” And she scratched him under the chin.

“What an intelligent woman,” Alexander thought.

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