Martha Muetzel

Tuxedo Tales Martha Muetzel

Retired from a career as a country barn cat, eighteen year old Tuxedo recalls her past adventures in delightful short tales from catching a thief to a garden rescue. Whimsical and clever, the cat's own stories are further enriched with those told to her by other animals she refers to as "four-leggeds". Descriptive details acquaint the reader with country life and nature and draw scenes of the shoeing of the horse, the fiesty squirrel in the pine boughs, the frolicking maple leaves in autumn, and the desperate cat in the frozen woodland. More deeply, the thoughts and emotions expressed by the simple "four-leggeds" draw laughter and perhaps a tear from young readers and adults alike.