Cross-country cat

Format:

Book

Title:

Cross-country cat

Author:

Calhoun, Mary.

ISBN:

9780688221867

9780688321864

9780688065195

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Morrow, 1979.

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series title(s):

Henry the cat.

Summary:

When he becomes lost in the mountains, a cat with the unusual ability of walking on two legs finds his way home on cross-country skis.

Reading Level:

AD640 Lexile.

Subject(s):

Cats -- Juvenile fiction.

Cross-country skiing -- Juvenile fiction.

Siamese cat -- Juvenile fiction.

Cats -- Fiction.

Cross-country skiing -- Fiction.

Genre:

Picture books for children.

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Author Notes

Mary Calhoun was born on August 3, 1926 in Keokuk, Iowa. She received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Iowa. She worked at the Omaha World Herald before marrying fellow journalist Frank Calhoun. Her first book, Making the Mississippi Shout, was published in 1957. She wrote more than 50 children's books during her lifetime including the Katie John series, Julie's Tree, Henry the Sailor Cat, and Cross-Country Cat. She died on October 27, 2015 at the age of 89.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

When a cat named Henry gets left behind at a ski lodge, he puts on skis and heads out on his own. PW praised this story, which ``races as swiftly as the cocky hero's downhill skis and keeps one in hair-curling suspense. Ingraham's snowy scenes are in exactly the right shades of blue, sepia and gray, set off by glaring white.'' (4-8) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Shrewdly, Calhoun shakes off her characteristic storyteller's lilt to tell this straight, and Ingraham puts a realistic fuzzy cat and jean-clad family in the softly lit, snowy setting. Shrewder yet, when The Kid of the skiing family makes a small pair of skis for their ""hind-leg walker"" cat, the animal refuses to use them. What kind of cat would go sliding off on skis, and who'd believe it anyway? Well, when the family drives off after the weekend and accidentally leaves the cat behind, he does and you will. ""The only way was to ski out""--and so he sets off gamely, working up a rhythm by singing a song he's heard from The Kid: ""This old man, he played one. . . ."" En route, as in any natural day-in-the-life (or so it seems), the cat passes a lumbering elk, loses a race with a smart-aleck snowshoe rabbit, chases a jay, and flees from a coyote who is finally slowed down by the crusted snow--just right for skis, just wrong for paws. At last when the cat spots his family's returning car, he hides the skis and flounders piteously: ""Some smart cat."" It's all low-keyed and beguilingly matter-of-fact--as the cat, with pine-branch poles at a stylish angle, skis staunchly along to the tune of his ""Knick-knack, paddy-whack."" Not for cat fanciers only. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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