The Third-Story Cat

Similar to Laura Jean Coats's Goodyear the City Cat, Alice is also an urban feline. She escapes from her apartmentalready an adventurebut there's more. She meets another cat in the park across the street, and they roll in flower beds and prowl around for food by a park bench. At day's end she returns home, to the delight of her worried young mistress Annie. The star of this book is the artwork; Baker's soft, subtle watercolor paintings evocatively bring a childlike inquisitiveness to Alice's journey. Ages 4-8. (October)