Pinky's family has decided that they want to get a pet, but what kind?
Pinky wants a dog but he is outvoted three to one in favor of a cat. The
decision is sealed during a trip to the supermarket. There, in front of
the store, is a girl giving away free kittens and Amanda has chosen one
before Pinky is even out of the car.
At home, Pinky's sister Amanda announces, She's really mine. I was the
first one to hold her and that makes me her mother. Pinky doesn't care.
He wants a dog. But that's before Patches, as Amanda has named the
kitten, sneaks into Pinky's room each night and Pinky finds himself
having a change of heart.
In Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right Pet, the twelfth book in the Pinky
and Rex series, James Howe once again illuminates a family situation
recognizable to all