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    Kaspar: Prince of Cats
    Kaspar: Prince of Cats
    Kaspar: Prince of Cats
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    Kaspar: Prince of Cats

    Written by Michael Morpurgo

    Narrated by Paul Chequer

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    About this audiobook

    A heart-warming novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

    Kaspar 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…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 3, 2011
    ISBN9780007435227
    Kaspar: Prince of Cats
    Author

    Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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    • 5/5
      So well read with different accents for the characters. A delight to listen to. Exposed my children to a lot of historical information about the Titanic and that era.
    • 5/5
      Brill story & very enjoyable. My wife and l have seen that sculpture of the cat at Savoy Hotel, it sits in the foyer area, but we never linked it to Kasper, because we saw it long before l reading this story. I met Bob Hope in the Savoy foyer in 1980's, but that's another story?

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    • 1/5
      The quality of audio is terrible. My daughter couldn’t listen to it.
    • 4/5
      This book got chosen for book club and i think that it is very good. Michael Morpurgo used a famous non-fiction story and made it into a fiction book.
    • 3/5
      Reason for Reading: I've read and enjoyed the author before plus I am a Titanic fan.This is an entirely fictional story about three things, two of them rooted in actual fact. First and foremost it is the story of fourteen year old Johnny Trott, orphan, currently working as bell boy at the Savoy Hotel, secondly it is a story of how the famous sculpture of the Savoy Hotel cat may have come to be and thirdly, it is an account of the sinking of the Titanic.An important guest at the hotel befriends Johnny and instructs him to watch over her cat, Kaspar, while she is away from her rooms. Misfortune befalls her and Johnny keeps the cat as his own. Then another family comes to stay and he befriends the impish daughter of a wealthy couple. Here we deal with different types of friendship and love that Johnny has never experienced in his life before and this is the basic theme of the book. To add some adventure, the family is fated to sail home to New York on the "unsinkable" ship, the Titanic. Both Johnny and Kaspar end up on board but I won't tell you how or why but this eventually leads to the sculpture of the Kaspar cat being presented to the Savoy.A fun story that will appeal to both boys and girls. It is an easy-going book with the first half dedicated to Johnny and his relationships, much more character driven than anything else. I enjoyed this half the best. The second half picks up the pace and adds escapades and finally an account of the Titanic's sinking that is quite realistic. The author ends with a Post Script telling the reader how, as a writer, he pulled the real elements from life and created his fictional story from them.Final word on the illustrations, Michael Foreman is a prolific illustrator and one of the best England has to offer. This book is no exception; it is profusely illustrated, in colour, and it was a delight to read a chapter book in colour for a change.
    • 5/5
      It may be Inspector Witherspoon's life, but it is Mrs. Jeffries who really runs things. Not only is she the housekeeper who keeps life at home smooth running, she is also the one who seems to guide the Inspector in solving the mysteries that come his way.In this book, the Inspector has put the household on a tight budget. To keep in line with this new ruling, Cook has dusted off an old cookbook with recipes that are as tasty as the dust but very economical. Not only is the Inspector suffering through these frugal meals, he is also working through a new murder of a business man who has a long list of possible suspects. Seems this business man has cheated his investors our of a nice chunk of money. The Inspector is trying to focus on finding clues and interviewing witnesses, while trying to ignore hunger pains from his diet at home.Behind the scenes, Mrs. Jeffries has organized the household staff into its' efficient sleuthing team mode. Cook may be feeding pauper meals to the Inspector, but she still is sure to have tea and sweet buns for when other household staff members drop by to chat in the kitchen. Meanwhile Wiggins, Betsy and Smythe utilize their network of other household staffs for information; uncovering some unsavoury secrets that point to who the guilty party is and why.This is a cozy series set in Victorian times and is a fun and fast read.
    • 5/5
      Kaspar prince of cats by Micheal Morpurgo is about a little boy who works at a hotel as a bell boy and a women singer came to the hotel to stayed.The little boy and the woman became good friend.One day the woman died so he went into the woman's hotel room and found a cat.The cat and him became good friends.The singers friends came to get the cat and when the were going ,they ask the little boy if he wanted to go with him to the titanic.The little boy said 'no because if he goes he will lose his job'.But he went to say good bye but the boat left the place before he got out. This book is really good and it talk a little bit about freindship.
    • 4/5
      A fun, fast-moving, and most enjoyable old-fashioned tale.
    • 5/5
      A great story by a great childrens author. The tale of Kasper, who outlives a countess, survives the Titanic and brings a boy a new family.
    • 4/5
      This book got chosen for book club and i think that it is very good. Michael Morpurgo used a famous non-fiction story and made it into a fiction book.