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K-3
Illustrated by
Magali Le Huche.
A cab-driving city cat decides to hop a plane with some visiting jungle animals and have an adventure. He enjoys "the wild" until he becomes homesick. The home-sweet-home story is familiar, and many of the rhymes fail to scan properly. However, readers will take to the art, whose busy anthropomorphized animals call to mind Richard Scarry's cast.