Pussycat knows Christmas is coming, plays in the snow, and watches the Christmas preparations.

"There was a little island in the ocean - and this book is about how it was on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night changed it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else lived on it, and what the kitten who came to visit found out about it" --

An old lady living alone by the sea finds joy and comfort from her seventeen cats and especially one small blue-grey kitten.