This story about Henrietta, the pet cat, traveling around the world with reporter Christopher Wren and his family is light-hearted and fun. The family loves its cat so very much that they put up with all sorts of complications brought about by traveling and living abroad with an animal.
The cat is small, as its mother was a Siamese. It is gray and an excellent mouser. And wouldn't you know it, at one point (in Cairo) it decides to go its own way and gets lost for a time in dangerous back streets and filthy alleys.
This book conveys very well the warmth and stability generated by a loving family. So much so that at one point I was wondering how the parents could be so pleasant and patient all the time. The answer is that no one is that perfect and no two children are such models of good behavior all the time. The focus of this book is not the people, however, but the cat. As the author writes, Henrietta is an ordinary cat who has extraordinary adventures. This book will make you glow with delight, it is so deftly written.
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