Teelo the cat endures a kayak ride to Victor's island home. Everything is perfect. Peace and quiet and a cozy wood stove to curl up under. Then Victor, who's a veterinarian, brings home a rooster and three hens. Soon he adds a terrier, a snake, a parrot. It's too much. Teelo stows away on the kayak for a little solitude and ends up having the adventure of his life in A Cat in a Kayak (Annick $6.95), a first children's book for Nanaimo's Maria Coffey, a kayaking travel writer.

[BCBW 1998]