An old couple faces the very difficult problem of finding the world’s prettiest cat. But when the old man looks out across the land filled with millions of cats, he decides he simply must take them all home because he cannot decide which one is prettiest. The old woman argues that the cats might be better judges of their own prettiness. When the cats prove incapable of picking one cat, they eat each other up, until only the homeliest kitten is left. The ugly kitten turns out to be the prettiest cat in the eyes of the old couple.


Millions of Cats is interested with the ambiguous nature of beauty and the relationship between beauty and happiness.

 Maddie and her friends later discover that Wanda is a very talented artist, and that her  drawing of one hundred beautiful dresses has won the school's art contest. The girls realize that they misjudged Wanda, and feel incredibly guilty for never believing her stories of her "one hundred dresses." In the end, the girls write a letter to Wanda, hoping to make amends, and they are pleasantly surprised by her willingness to forgive.

This story shows us that we should never make fun of our fellow individuals' distinct differences. We should make some effort to accept them as they are and engage with them.

In this book animals are personified, becoming intelligent as humans, caring and emotionally attached to the little boy like he was the one of their own. Mowgli is capable of talking to them, as they were given the knowledge of human speech or Mowgli somehow succeeded in learning  their way of communication.

As in the life of Mowgli, which echoes Kipling's own background, a prominent topic in the book is desertion followed by fostering. The triumph of protagonists like as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their foes, as well as Mowgli's, is mirrored in this theme.

Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud. The land was theirs, but so were its hardships.

Teachers, grandparents, and homeschooling families continue to reach for Lois Lenski's Strawberry Girl. As one fan commented, a reason for its continued success is that it's "a touching, realistic tale of the power of neighborly love and kindness.

This is a novel full of adventure, humor, and the thrills of everyday living in this fascinating section of the United States. Lois Lenski has a knack for capturing the flavor and drama of life in a far-flung part of the United States.