Gobbolino The Witch’s Cat by Ursula Moray Williams
This has been a childhood favourite of mine for years, but it is also years and years since I last read it. Michelle Harrison, the author of the 13 Treasures series, put the book to mind again when she got a new, special edition of it. I dug out my original Young Puffin edition…
I hadn’t remembered much about this book, other than the title: Gobbolino The Witch’s Cat, and that I loved it. After re-reading it now, I still love it. It’s a gloriously comforting read, and a true fable as Gobbolino, the cat with one white paw, sets out to discover who he really is as he really doesn’t want to be a witch’s cat, but how it seems, right up to the end that a witch’s cat is what he is meant to be.
I hadn’t remembered much about this book, other than the title: Gobbolino The Witch’s Cat, and that I loved it. After re-reading it now, I still love it. It’s a gloriously comforting read, and a true fable as Gobbolino, the cat with one white paw, sets out to discover who he really is as he really doesn’t want to be a witch’s cat, but how it seems, right up to the end that a witch’s cat is what he is meant to be.
