Kaspar: Prince of Cats
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Foreman
Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storytellerA heart-warming novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus TipsKaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket – Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's things to her room.But Johnny didn't expect to end up with Kaspar on his hands forever, and nor did he count on making friends with Lizziebeth, a spirited American heiress. Pretty soon, events are set in motion that will take Johnny – and Kaspar – all around the world, surviving theft, shipwreck and rooftop rescues along the way. Because everything changes with a cat like Kaspar around. After all, he's Prince Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Muscovite, a Londoner and a New Yorker, and as far as anyone knows, the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic…
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Text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2008. Illustrations copyright © Michael Forman 2008
Cover photographs © Masterfile (cat); Shutterstock (sea and sky). Illustrations by Michael Foreman. Cover design layout © HarperCollinsPublishers 2009.
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Version: 2016-11-02
For all the good and kind people at The Savoy who looked after us so well.
MM.
For my brother Pud, a North Sea fisher-man and boy.
MF.
Contents
Cover Page (#u892bd968-5ca4-518a-9e85-c64edbdf0214)
Title Page (#u89ff5909-52d0-5c9b-99fe-530bafb4f159)
Copyright (#ua38a6b13-2519-5065-9e9f-f356c2602d26)
Dedication (#u35bb1604-c33c-577c-8e29-8696cf5b8e21)
The Coming of Kaspar (#u2f9a4a61-5072-532e-b57d-ec813c4f44ad)
Not Johnny Trott at All (#ueb1ba442-0112-59fb-b1ad-a1de7e2bfa57)
A Ghost in the Mirror (#udd7c3511-1f4e-50f4-adb3-8baefeea37cf)
“Who Gives a Fig, Anyway?” (#u640e51ca-04f8-520c-8667-b6b52f72cf16)
Running Wild (#u43977aa1-ccd0-5366-a34b-c9f56e953d5b)
Stowaway (#u035ac7ab-6c76-5727-a92c-fc72404e0ce0)
“We’ve Only Gone and Hit A Flaming Iceberg” (#u093fbfe3-40e6-5af2-a832-6f01faa782f0)
Women and Children First (#u240cd40b-ed18-5078-bae5-52feb5149763)
“Good Luck and God Bless You” (#u3f15449d-5742-5fa8-900a-b8cbaa840651)
A New Life (#u082057e9-df26-5625-9965-5a13a9753aa4)
Postscript (#u0b1c0505-16b7-55d0-8785-8a60b557a439)
Keep Reading (#u777e93c4-1d55-5b27-ad8e-031358885971)
About the Author (#ud7f9750f-b720-5b97-baf8-ec65c9e5fa24)
Also by Michael Morpurgo (#u75d3b604-d771-598e-96ff-ceffa526d197)
About the Publisher (#u3360bc07-c022-5087-b12e-da7606ce1447)
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