Seriously ... cats

[kinzel]

Cats

Name a couple of your favorite books about cats. Can be fiction, can be nonfiction.

Also, do you have a favorite cat magazine? How about a favorite cat movie? A favorite cat toy?

Favorite cat site?

Favorite real life well-known cat...


Warning: I'm making lists... and will without hesitation pick and choose as the Catwhisker Digest (over there at Catwhisker.net) is set for a makeover.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Er, Lloyd Alexander of the Prydain books? I don't know that one (in fact the Prydain series are the only ones of his I've ever found).

[reedrover]

Oh, yes, that Lloyd Alexander. http://www.nndb.com/people/057/000044922/

"Initially he supported himself with an assortment of publication-related jobs (including cartoonist, advertising writer, and magazine editor) while trying to get his start as a novelist. After several years of rejections he published And Let the Credit Go (1955), the first of a series of early autobiographical novels. It was followed in 1956 by My Five Tigers, a book about his cats. Pets, and especially pet cats, soon became an recurring theme for Alexander, and in 1963 he made the switch to the juvenile fantasy market with Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth. Originally inspired by the mysterious comings and goings of his own cat, the novel featured a cat who spirits his owner to various significant places in history. It was while doing research for Time Cat that he revisited Welsh mythology and became inspired to write his extremely popular and award-winning Pyrdain novels."

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Ah, an earlier book. Hmm, I sense a trip to Amazon. Thanks...

[reedrover]

You are very welcome! Enjoy!

The Cat Who Would Be A Man - Lloyd Alexander

[jane-barfly.livejournal.com]

A theme, I sense a theme! We don't currently own a cat, since three of the four of us a allergic asthmatics who don't like ER visits.

But the Lloyd Alexander books are way up there. I do also like T. S. Eliot, and did long before the musical.
Laura

Re: The Cat Who Would Be A Man - Lloyd Alexander

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I grew up with Practical Cats long before the musical was even an idea (ALW is a few years older than me, but not older enough I think to have started writing the musical before he was ten!). I don't currently share living space with a cat, because I'm freelance and go where the work is, and that wouldn't be at all fair on any animal, but the last contract I was lodging in the same place for over 2 years and sharing with a cat (sometimes literally when she decided that my bed was the most comfortable place to sleep). I'm not allergic, fortunately.