Pickles was a young cat who wanted to do big things. But all he could find to do was to chase little cats out of the yard where he lived. And this was a bad thing, not a big thing.

One day Pickles chased a little cat up a tree. But as sometimes happens, Pickles could not climb down. His only friend, Mrs. Goodkind, called the Fire Department. And when Joe, the fireman, took Pickles back to the Fire Department with him, Pickles realized that his chance had finally come.

How Pickles became a real Fire Cat, and how he realized his ambition to do big things makes a story beginning readers will want to read again and again. Children who have had Ester Averill's Jenny Linsky books read aloud to them will be thrilled to find out more about the popular Fire Cat in a book they can actually read to themselves.

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