Catwings

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
Other Authors: Schindler, S. D. (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Orchard Books, c1988.
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Summary:Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Item Description:"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Physical Description:40 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
ISBN:0531057593
0531083594 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married Charles Le Guin.

Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88.

(Bowker Author Biography)