Publisher's Synopsis
The cat and the crow live under the huge and mysterious banyan tree. All day long they tell each other stories - the cat's are elegant and entertaining, the crow's fast and furious. One day they decide to tell extra special stories, each of which involves them climbing inside the banyan tree. The cat takes the crow up and up, through the tall tree and out into the sky, where they board a shooting star and fly to the highest mountain of the moon. Then they climb down again. When it is the crow's turn, the cat jumps on his back and they are off and rushing, for they are being chased by hullaballoos. They dodge the glockenspiel, race through the ghost tunnel, past the snake gang and back - to the cat's great relief - to the bottom of the banyan tree, where they both have tea.;Penelope Lively's previous children's books include "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" (winner of the Carnegie Medal) and "A Stitch in Time" (winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel Award). In 1987 she also won the Booker Prize for "Moon Tiger".;Terry Milne has also illustrated "Grandma's Hat" and "The Toymaker".
