This is the second book in the trilogy: Baerlie and Red-Nosed. The entire project is about respect and friendship - regardless of whether the participants are extremely tall, very short, heavy, on the light side, gray-haired or green-spotted. Diversity enriches all of our lives. "Fear," says the pilot with a smile, "is a very useless emotion. It paralyzes and limits your abilities tremendously. Respect for the forces of nature (and physics) is good and necessary. That is why I will show you exactly what you have to do and when." ......... Sometimes you just have to jump over your own shadow and overcome your fears if you want to experience extraordinary things." That is what Red-nosed learned this morning. As for the (often unexpected) cats in the books: We humans exist in a cat universe and the fact that we are allowed to live in their homes or otherwise together with them is to be seen as a friendly gesture of the cat population...