一只浑身湿透的流浪猫，两扇没有打开的门，还有一个依然做出决定的女孩
《长椅下的猫》是一篇免费的7页儿童善良主题漫画故事。玛雅在雨中发现一只躲在长椅下、浑身湿透的流浪猫。她敲了两户人家的门，却没人愿意帮忙，于是她把小猫裹进自己的外套，带它回家。故事由 ReadKidz 制作，可在本页完整阅读。
漫画画面中的文字为英文，每一页原文下方都附有中文译文。
The rain came down in gray curtains, soaking the pavement and drumming on every rooftop in the street.
Maya pulled her jacket tight and ran, her sneakers splashing through puddles, her bag bouncing hard against her back.
She was almost at the corner when she saw it — a small shape beneath a wooden bench, pressed flat against the ground.
雨像灰色的帘幕一样落下来，浸湿了人行道，敲打着街上每一栋屋顶。
玛雅拉紧外套跑了起来，运动鞋踩过水洼，溅起一片片水花，书包重重地在背上蹦跳着。
她快到街角时，看见了它——一个小小的身影躲在木长椅下，紧紧贴着地面。
It was a cat. Soaking wet, the color of storm clouds, with its ears pinned down and its whole body trembling. It watched Maya with wide amber eyes but didn't move, not even when a car rolled past and sent a wave of cold water skimming across the pavement.
Maya crouched down.
Rain soaked through the knees of her jeans.
那是一只猫。它浑身湿透，颜色像暴风雨的云，耳朵耷拉着，整个身子都在发抖。它用一双睁得大大的琥珀色眼睛看着玛雅，却一动不动；就连一辆汽车驶过，在人行道上卷起一阵冰冷的水浪时，它也没有动。
玛雅蹲了下来。
雨水浸透了她牛仔裤的膝盖。
The cat blinked at her slowly, then looked away, as if pretending not to need anything at all.
Maya pulled her jacket off and draped it over her bag, making a kind of roof.
The cat's trembling slowed, just a little.
She knocked on the nearest door — number fourteen — but nobody answered.
She knocked on number sixteen.
An old man opened it, shook his head at the cat, and closed the door again.
小猫慢慢地眨了眨眼，然后把脸转开了，好像假装自己根本不需要任何帮助。
玛雅脱下外套，搭在书包上，做成一个小小的屋顶。
小猫的颤抖稍微慢了一点点。
她敲了最近的一扇门——十四号——但没有人应门。
她又敲了十六号的门。
一位老人打开门，看着小猫摇了摇头，又把门关上了。
Maya stood on the step and looked back at the bench.
The cat was still there, watching her.
She walked back and sat beside the bench, right on the wet ground, and reached one hand underneath. The cat sniffed her fingers. Its nose was cold. Its fur was absolutely drenched. Very slowly, it pressed the top of its head against her palm.
玛雅站在台阶上，回头望向长椅。
小猫还在那里，正看着她。
她走回去，在长椅旁坐下，直接坐在湿漉漉的地上，把一只手伸到椅子下面。小猫闻了闻她的手指。它的鼻子冰冰的，毛也湿得透透的。它非常缓慢地把头顶贴在她的掌心上。
Maya tucked the cat inside her jacket, holding it against her chest. It was heavier than it looked, and it dug its claws lightly into her sleeve, not enough to hurt, just enough to hold on. She started walking toward home again. The rain didn't slow down.
玛雅把小猫塞进外套里，抱在胸前。它比看上去更重，爪子轻轻勾住她的袖子，不会弄疼她，却足够紧紧抓住。她又开始朝家走去。雨一点也没有变小。
Her mother opened the front door before Maya even reached the step. She took one look at her daughter — soaked through, shoes squelching, a pair of amber eyes glowing from inside the jacket — and put her hand over her mouth.
"His name is Kay," Maya said firmly, before her mother could say a single word.
玛雅还没走上台阶，妈妈就打开了前门。她看了一眼自己的女儿——浑身湿透，鞋子踩起来吱吱作响，外套里还闪着一双琥珀色的眼睛——便用手捂住了嘴。
“它叫凯。”妈妈还没来得及说一个字，玛雅就坚定地说。
Kay looked up from inside the jacket. He sneezed. Then he tucked his nose under Maya's chin and stayed very, very still, listening to the rain.
凯从外套里抬起头。它打了个喷嚏。然后，它把鼻子埋在玛雅的下巴下面，一动也不动地待着，听着雨声。
这个故事中最有意义的地方，是那些没有发生的事：没有大人来解决问题。玛雅敲了两户人家的门，却没有得到帮助；故事没有惩罚这些邻居，也没有把他们写成坏人——只是让玛雅站在台阶上，决定自己要怎么做。孩子们常被告知“去找大人帮忙”，却很少能看到一个人主动行动是什么样子。她甚至在征求同意前就给小猫起了名字，这一点既让人会心一笑，也值得聊一聊。
共七页——是一篇短故事，大约五分钟能读完，也很适合作为刚开始学习阅读分镜的孩子的第一篇漫画。
它为 7-9 岁儿童创作，不过画面承载了大部分故事，所以更小的读者也能轻松理解。
能。最后一页里，凯蜷在玛雅的下巴下，听着雨声。这个故事里不会有令动物伤心的事发生。
