It is therefore not one of Le Guin’s most elegant bits of writing, but who cares! The book is fun, and I remember loving it as a child. It is clearly intended to be a children’s book, so it would be foolish to try and analyze it any other way. The book is cute, written to please young, imaginative minds. He is made welcome and stays for a while before his owners find him. Eventually, he is rescued by a cat who can fly and is brought back to a barn where other cats with wings live. He eventually gets scared up a tree by some dogs and remains stuck up there. He explores his new surroundings, and in doing so encounters some of the dangers that can face a kitten in the world. It is the fun story of an adventurous cat named Alexander who wanders away from his home. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings is one book in a series of stories about the Catwings. So I went down to my basement, dug through boxes of dusty children’s books, and eventually found it. I just couldn’t resist I had to re-read it. It was not until now, that I put the title and the author together and realized that this was one of my favorite books when I was younger. This was when I first read the children’s story Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, which she wrote. I had never realized it, but I have been a fan of Ursula Le Guin since I was seven.
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