In the same pattern as Sam and the Inkspot, Wilderness Pup and others, the author matches unembellished text with her photographically detailed pencil drawings to tell a Siamese cat's story. In New York, Yala escapes from her basket, boards a ship, sails to Brazil, returns to be cast ashore in a storm off North Carolina. There in the woods she has three kittens and is finally given a happy home by the Elliot family. The pat unimaginativeness has a certain literal, steadying appeal.