Lilting text and breathtaking illustrations combine to create a picture-book flight into fantasy that is a tour de force. It all begins when a sassy Siamese cat named Henry stows away in a hot-air balloon and takes off into the wild blue yonder. Leaving The Man and The Kid far below, Henry sails out over the countryside, enjoying the scenery and the exhilaration of the dizzying heights. But Henry learns there is more to ballooning than just watching the clouds go by. Before the fur-raising flight is over, he and his balloon are put at the mercy of a sharp-beaked eagle, blown into the middle of a flock of honking, hissing geese, and led dangerously close to the high power lines on Colson Hill. Triumphantly Henry meets the challenge of the sky and, with a strategic show of humility, returns to his owners. Admirers of Cross-Country Cat will be equally enchanted by the further adventures of daredevil Henry, as he cautiously, then confidently masters the sport of hot-air ballooning.

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