Pussy Willow

A tale about a little kitten named Pussy Willow. After thinking the pussy willows had disappeared, he looks for them “through moonlight and starlight, thunder and lightning, day and night, wind and rain.” He meets many other animals and bugs throughout his journey, asking them, “did you ever see any gray fur flowers that look just like me?” The creatures all give answers that direct him further along in his journey. The butterfly instructs him to look in the sky, the bee tells him to check the garden, the rabbit tells him to look in a carrot. The only one who didn’t provide an answer was the cabbage who “sat there in its great green silence, and never said a word.”  At the end of the story spring has come again, the pussy willows are blooming, and Pussy Willow is relieved to have found them.