Jane on Her Own: A Catwings Tale

by Ursula Le Guin

Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

221

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (2003), 48 pages

Description

When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.

User reviews

LibraryThing member lweddle

"Being different is difficult," Thelma said. "And sometimes very dangerous."

The Library of Congress summary: When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.

I love this Catwings book

even more than the first one. The first one is very sweet and the illustrations are delightful, but this story is better than the first. Jane is a little more spicy than her older brothers and sisters from the first book. She is raring to go out on her own and see the world. They know what's out there and try to warn her, but she is stubborn and is determined to do her own thing.

There are consequences to her action, but fear not! She manages to come through in the end.

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LibraryThing member t1bclasslibrary

Jane finds life too peaceful and uneventful, so she goes in search of adventure. Instead of adventure, she finds loneliness, and even when she makes a friend in the big city, he uses her for profit. Finally she escapes and finds her mother, who she lives with in the city (making occational visits

to her siblings in the country).

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LibraryThing member Chris177

A cute little story about a cat with wings that wants to spread those wings and explore the world. The illustrations are pleasant and enhance the book nicely. This is book four in a series of books all devoted to a group of cats with wings. Having read this book I would like to read the others.

LibraryThing member DebbieMcCauley

Another sweet little story for children by Ursula Le Guin. This one features the little sister that the older Catwings discovered when they visited their mother in the city and who they took back to the farm with them.

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

And back to sweet and a bit pointless. Or maybe a little too pointed. The problem here is that despite all the publicity, Jane is apparently completely forgotten and never spotted again... highly unlikely. Jane gets bored with the farm and decides to fly back to the city (despite her early trauma

there - I guess she really is cured). She cheerfully picks a human for a friend (and what was wrong with her friends at home?), who is delighted to see her and to put her on TV, etc. He treats her well, but won't let her loose at all - which is not what she was looking for when she left home. So she sneaks off...and finds and moves in with her mother, who has a human of the good sort. And the story ends with Jane flying freely about the city, but no problem (somehow) with people spotting her. It's OK, but I like Wonderful Alexander better.

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LibraryThing member cbl_tn

Although young Jane, the most recent addition to the Catwings, loves life at Overhill Farm, she becomes convinced that she needs to use her wings to see the world. She doesn't listen to her siblings' warnings of what will surely happen once human ~~beans~~ beings discover that there are cats with

wings. Jane journeys back to the city of her birth, where she finds a friendly human ~~bean~~ being who takes good care of her, but who makes sure that she can't use her wings to travel away from him. Will Jane ever see her family again? This final Catwings book brings the series to a happy conclusion. I'm glad to have discovered this series, and it will go on my list of children's books to give as shower gifts, Christmas gifts, or a child's birthday gift.

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LibraryThing member elenchus

At first W worried the story only featured Jane: "I like the other cats!" Quite soon he was back in the Catwings world and enjoyed it as much as the others.

Le Guin works in an implicit subtext criticising misogyny and male chauvinism, not particularly subtle for older readers but for W the message

seemed to register as focusing on Jane, and not females generally.

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