Jessica went to visit her grandfather. He lived by himself and sometimes he got lonely When she got there, her grandfather was sitting on the back step holding a bowl of milk. "There's a wild little cat in the bushes," he said. "She must be hungry, but she won't come out." "You can't rush a cat, Granddaddy," Jessica said. Jessica's grandfather is eager to meet the wild little cat who streaks into the house and hides in the basement, but Jessica knows that it takes great patience to woo a cat. She waits and waits and then, near the end of her visit, she sits down in the middle of the kitchen floor and puts to work all her knowledge of felines. When she goes home, her grandfather has a new friend. Karleen Bradford is the beloved, award-winning author of many novels. Though her first book was not published until she was forty, the same year she became a pilot and a scuba diver, Karleen cannot remember a time when she didn't write. In grade four her friends whispered desperately to one another, "Run Hide Karleen's written another play and she's going to make us act in it." Karleen grew up in Argentina, then lived all over South and Central America and Europe as the wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She lives with her husband, Jim, and a gentle giant of a German Shepherd named Casey. Three grown children, six grandchildren and assorted granddogs and grandcats live nearby. Leslie Elizabeth Watts has illustrated a number of acclaimed picture books, including It's Raining, It's Pouring, and On the Night of the Comet. Leslie works in egg tempera, an old technique that requires the mixing of dry pigments with egg yolk and water. She lives in Harriston, Ontario, with her daughter Emily, her son Stefan, and several pets, including a Maine Coon Cat named Yo-Yo, who was delighted to model for the pictures in this book.