I can hear someone say, “Ahhh, just look at those precious golden eyes,” pictured on the cover of this young readers’ book for cat lovers. The book comes in four parts, not really chapters for this early level of reading: What Are Ocicats?, History of Ocicats, Coat of Many Colors, and Lively and Loving. To answer the first question, Ocicats are large, spotted, short haired  domestic cats named after Ocelots. The breed began in Michigan in 1964 by crossing Abyssinian and Siamese cats and then crossing those kittens with Abyssinians. The diagram on page 17 sums it up nicely: large slanted eyes, spotted coat, athletic body, long tail with dark tip, weighing 6 to 15 pounds, with a life span of 15 to 18 years.

Being that this book is written for a young aged reader there are usually only two sentences per page with 75% of the page filled with a color photo of this cat species.