While his sister Sootica learns how to ride a broomstick and turn mice into toads, Gobbolino sets out to find a family to care for him and a home of his own.

Gobbolino, a witch's feline endowed with unusual powers, is a charming little kitten who faces an identity crisis. His supernatural powers finally removed, Gobbolino finds himself reunited with the very family whose father wanted to drown him at the beginning of the book for being a witch's cat! Perhaps the one flaw of the book is that it is difficult to see how anyone could fail to love this little fellow.Ursula Moray Williams was born on 19 April 1911 at Petersfield, Hampshire, ten minutes after her twin sister, Barbara. He tries to be a normal kitchen cat, first at a farm, then an orphanage, then the mayor's house, but his magic always gets him into trouble. One hardly expects most children's books written for this age level to grapple with such weighty issues, but Ursula Moray Williams's book does just that.

His heritage gives almost everyone around him reason to move him on, and his life becomes one adventure after another as yet another home becomes unwelcoming and rebuffs the kitten. Along the way, his magic and kindness brought happiness to many, yet his own happiness never really lasted.He tries time and again to find a home, but the fact he was born as a witch's cat always follows him and spoils his chances. Sometimes, we feel that we don't belong--that there is something more out there for us and I admire Gobbolino's desire to break away from what's expected of him. Alungat însă, pentru că nu seamănă cu ceilalți (are o lăbuță albă), tânjește după un cămin fericit, după mângâieri și compania oamenilor. Only thing was it was a different cover on the book, which was disappointing as she chose the book for its initial image and thought it was the wrong book. What made most of this story fun to read was the somewhere-inbetween-ness of Gobbolino, the kind-hearted witch's cat with blue eyes and one white paw.