The The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint is an elementary-level fantasy. Lillian Kindred is a “gangly, tousle-haired” orphan girl who lives with Aunt. She is a nice girl who searches for fairies, leaves a saucer for the barn cats after she milks Annabelle, scatters seeds for the squirrels when she feeds the chickens, and leaves some of her breakfast biscuit for the Apple Tree Man. Her adventures begin with a fatal snake bite…when the magic cats rescue her…by transforming her into a kitten. A delightful story with talking animals and life lessons.
Lillian learned something about looking after a farm, and standing up for herself, and how true friends will stand by you, and the senselessness of holding on to old quarrels. She’d even learned that sometimes a thing was just going to happen—like if one person weren’t bitten by a snake, then maybe somebody else would be. Old Mother Possum shrugged. “What’s important to remember is that one thing leads to another. Trouble is, it’s hard to see ahead sometimes, so I gave you a chance to do just that.”
There’s those that talk, and those that do. Which do you think gets the thing done?”
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