The story may be 75 years old now, but the style shouldn't put off readers/listeners, the language is readable and moves along nicely. Gobbolino was born a witch's kitten, but he is nice and doesn't want to harm anyone, so he wants to be a kitchen cat. It has been published with new illustrations more than once and a 70th anniversary edition of the self-illustrated version was published in the Puffin Modern Classics series. The world Gobbolino ventured into was not ready to accept him as who he was; in that world, he could either be a witch's cat, or a kitchen cat, not something in between. Only thing was it was a different cover on the book, which was disappointing as she chose the book for its initial image and thought it was the wrong book.

Perhaps the one flaw of the book is that it is difficult to see how anyone could fail to love this little fellow. It’s a good read-aloud book and my kids couldn’t wait to find out where Gobbolino might end up next.

One hardly expects most children's books written for this age level to grapple with such weighty issues, but Ursula Moray Williams's book does just that. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

With his bright blue eyes and sparky magic whiskers, no one could mistake Gobbolino for a kitchen cat, but that's just what he longs to be. Being so kind-hearted and not keen to perform spells and magic tricks, he gets abandoned by his mistress witch and sets off on a series of adventures to find his fortune elsewhere. I love this story of a little cat who, though born to a witch's cat, just isn't cut out to be a witch's cat like his mother and sister.Dar să vă zic ce am învățat eu după mai bine de două decenii de când sunt nesuferită și sarcastică: când un om te vede așa cum ești și te iubește, nu o să conteze că scoți scântei din mustăți ca Gobbolino sau că faci deseori glume răutăcioase, deși nu cu răutate, ca mine. In a series of adventures, our hero continually finds what appear to be ideal homes, only to be turned out again when his parentage is revealed, or the circumstances of his human companions change.