Children's Picture Books - Big Electric Cat

A giant mechanical cat, having escaped from a theme park in Canada, defends a small and beautiful town in a Mexican valley. A young boy hears about the cat on a radio and he seeks out the town. Warned that the cat who defends the village might eat him, and that a big storm is coming, the boy bravely continues on his journey. When the boy meets the cat, and mistakenly thinks it might eat him, a tornado descends upon the town and the mechanical cat jumps to the town's rescue battling the winds of the tornado high up in the atmosphere.

The story puts two courageous characters together, who find commonality, despite their massive difference in size, in one community. The story is about everyone's need of community, the lengths they will go to find it, and the comradeship that develops in protecting it from the sometimes cold North winds of change and progress.

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