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When one of the flying cats, Jane, rescues him he wonders how he can repay her. Wonderful Alexander is a kitten who gets himself stuck in a tree. This is the third book in the Catwings series. Wonderful Alexander and Catwings by Ursula Le Guin. There's a gentle humor in these stories as well as some adventure. When they do find their mother, she insists that the new kitten should go with them too. There they find another winged kitten, bruised and frightened.

James and Harriet, two of the winged kittens, return to the slums to find their mother. Act out a favorite scene from the story with the puppets.

Create stick Catwing puppets such as this one.

Brainstorm ways for the kittens to rescue their mother.

Write a diary from a cat's point of view.

Imagine other animals including humans with wings.

You could work line by line from a section of the book.

To help discern the realistic from fantastic aspects of the story create a two column chart with the headings of "realistic" and "fantasy" and work together to brainstorm things that fit each category.

The kittens are concerned with the hands and feet of the humans.

Where do you think your pets would go if they could fly?.

Do the illustrations help or hurt the believability?.

How does the author maintain the cats' point of view throughout the book?.

How does the author make you believe kittens could have wings?.

The illustrations are pen and ink with soft washes of pastels and add some lightness to the story. Great for kids just venturing into the world of reading novels. Surviving near starvation they finally find some children who will love and care for them. Roger, James, Harriet and Thelma soon discover that their city skills don't help much in the woods of the country and they must fight some fierce birds in order to secure their territory. Soon, the mother realizes that the power to fly will allow her kittens to escape the slums in which they live to find a better life. Life among the trash cans of the inner city is not good: the shoes and boots kick and the hands hurt. Jane Tabby's four kittens are born, she is surprised to see that they have wings.