The Cat Who Came for Christmas

Cleveland Amory. Penguin Books, $8.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011342-6

One Christmas Eve, Amory, the founder and head of the Fund for Animals, found and took home a stray, scrawny cat. Here he ``offers an entertaining, if precious, recreation of his first year with Polar Bear'' (the cat's name), observed PW of this bestseller. 250,000 first printing; author tour. (November)

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