“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” — Lloyd Alexander
Tad Williams’s book Tailchaser’s Song is about an orange cat named Fritti Tailchaser. Fritti is in a fantasy world where he is descendents of cats who have been deformed by an ancient curse. Fritti and his friend Hushpad start to notice cat disappearances. When his friend Hushpad disappears he decides to go on a journey to they royal family to tell about these disappearances and befriends a kitten named Pouncequick on the way.
Warriors is a big series with 100+ books and 9 series of it. Each series tells of a new generation and its problems. It first starts with Rusty and his longing for the forest life. When he finally gets to join he soon makes enemies and friends. He deals with many conflicts and soon ends up leader. In the next series it talks about his son and his son’s quest to find a new home because twolegs (humans) are ruining their home.
Stray is a book by A.N. Walker about a cat retelling his story to his grandson and his daughter. He talks about his many losses and tells them about his old life. He tells them about how he got seperated from his mom and brother at a young age and got put with Grandma Harris who soon dies and many other tragic events. Although he does not have a name he calls himself Pufftail.
The Cat Who Walked A Thousand Miles is about a cat that doesn’t have a name, she just calls herself Small Cat. When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat sets out to find the home of her ancestor, the Cat From the North, and to make her own name along the way.
“The only constant in life is change.” — Heraclitus
Holes is a wonderful book by Louis Sachar about a boy who gets sent to a camp, a horrible camp. Stanley Yelnats got caught when people saw him steal shoes. These were Clyde “Sweet Feet” Livingston’s shoes (a famous baseball player). No one would listen to his version, that he never stole the shoes, and he was immediately put to justice.
Stanley was sent to a camp and at first he was excited. Because his family didn’t have much money he had never gone to camp before and thought it would be fun. However it was not fun. Mr Sir and Warden (Miss Walker) made everyone dig a hole 5 by 5 feet. Stanley and the other boys at the camp had no clue why they had to do such tasks. But it was only until they paid their debt.
Hector “Zero” Zeroni was doomed to stay there forever though. Thats because as an orphan he didn’t have anyone to get him. Zero is one of the fastest diggers their and finishes quick. Soon Zero and Stanley become “friends” and form an alliance and made a deal.
Zero would help dig Stanleys hole and Stanley would teach Zero how to read and write. Later however when Stanley was digging he found a gold pipe and gave it to Warden. Warden then made everyone dig harder in the spot Stanley pointed out (which wasn’t the actual spot because Stanley was clever).
Zero ran away after hitting a counselor with his shovel and a few days after Stanley followed in pursuit. Together they survived in the wilderness by eating turnips they dug up. After a while Stanley decided he would go back. And so they crept there at night and tried digging the hole.
But Warden caught them. Stanley and Zero before they got caught, had dug up a suitcase. Yellow-spotted lizards (poisonous) were all around the hole and nobody could move anything in fear they would be bitten. Not even Mr Sir or Warden could do anything but hope they’d move on.
The lizards eventually became used to Zero and Stanley. His lawyer came to tell him the good news and came to see this. When they came out of the hole Warden kept asking for the suitcase claiming it was hers.
Zero (who had it) shook his head and even though he could barely read he said “But this belongs to Stanley Yelnats”. And so Stanley ended up coming home to find out he was innocent and he had a bunch of riches from the chest which belonged to his great-grandfather.
“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” — Stefan Banach
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“Look up to the sky. You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.” — Charlie Chaplin
“Don’t go broke trying to look rich!“ — Unknown
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“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” — Forbes
When she was a kitten she had to leave her original owners because they owned too many cats. Nala was taken and seperated from her family. She was 5-6 months old and the last kitten when she got picked to be taken home by Varisiri Methachittiphan.
Varisi was with her friend and her friend was browsing for cats. While Varisi’s friend was petting her new cat Varisi decided to browse and look for cats. She picked up Nala and Nala licked her in the face.
Varisi decided she was the one
Nala got her fame when her owner, Varisi, started posting about her new adopted stray on Instagram in 2012. Varisi started posting for only her family but eventually others started to like the pictures as well.
Nala also holds a Guinness World Record for most popular cat on Instagram.
$100 Million
Taylor Swift bought Olivia Benson in 2014. Olivia Benson was 4-5 months old. Taylor swift named her after Olivia Benson in Mariska Hargitay’s character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Not much is known about Olivia’s life before.
Olivia Benson has about 97 million dollars. She earned it because she has had many appearances on some of Taylor’s music videos. Olivia Benson is also on many commercials about Diet Coke. She also gets her money from fan merchandise about herself.
$97 Million
Karl Lagerfeld adopted Choupette in 2011 when Choupette was a few months old. Karl says his favorite part about her (other than her cat cutness) was that she didn’t talk. He quotes “She is peaceful, funny, fun, and gracious, she’s pretty to look at and has good poise, but her main quality is that she doesn’t talk.”.
Choupette got her fame from Instagram and Twitter accounts. She also did some modeling for brands like Shu Uemura (Japan) and Opel (Germany). Choupette also appeared in Vogue with stars like Gisele Bündchen.
$13 Million
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
Crookshanks is Hermione’s cat. Crookshanks has a ginger coat and is said to look “lion like” because of it. Crookshanks also has a squashed face. Crookshanks first comes into the Harry Potter movies on movie 3, Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban. In the movie Harry Potter, Crookshanks was very good at spotting those who weren’t trustworthy. Crookshanks did however have a fondness for chasing Ron’s rat (Scabbers). Hermione wanted to get an owl but ended up picking Crookshanks when the store owner said no one wanted Crookshanks.
Crookshanks is actually played by 2 different cats. Although it is heard that there was a third cat though it is not entirely true. Crookshanks is mostly played by Crackerjack. Crackerjack is a male persian cat. In order to get Crookshanks’s long knotty hair, Crackerjack’s owners had to roll up Crackerjack’s shedded fur and clipped them onto him.
Playing Crookshanks was Pumpkin’s debut as a cat actress. She is a female persian and also played the role of Crookshanks. Pumpkin and Crackerjack shared the role of Crookshanks in the Harry Potter series starting in the third movie. Pumpkin was 10 years old when her owner got her. She was a former rescue and now lives with her new owner in luxury because of the Harry Potter movies. It is also said that Pumpkin got so used to her “diva” life that she refuses normal cat food and wishes to eat roast lamb and chicken instead.
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
-Sigmund Freud
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
The Wild Robot is a trilogy by Peter Brown turned into a movie. It is about a robot who was on a cargo ship, heading to her new home. But there was a tragic storm that broke her boat, sending every robot onboard to wash up on an island. Only ROZZUM unit 7314 survived. As she lay on the island’s beach some otters swam up and turned her on.
Roz explored the island but no animal will approach her. Giving up she sits down and doesn’t move, learning about her surroundings. Soon she learns how to speak animal language. Finding no one to look after she walks until she sees a bear cave. She pokes her head in and asks if she could be of service.
The bear chases her out. As Roz runs for her life she accidentally knocks over a tree. As she inspects the destruction she finds one egg that hasn’t been hurt. She takes care of it until it hatches. Roz sets it down and tries to get rid of it. But the hatchling stays with her.
Giving up she decides to raise it to become what it was meant to be. A goose. Being a robot (not a goose) she has difficulties raising him. Brightbill (the goose) learns how to swim and eat. But needs help on flying. So Roz takes him to the other geese. The geese immediately reject him. All but one. Longneck (the leader) lets Brightbill join as long as he learns to fly.
With the help of Fink (the fox) and Thunderbolt (the peregrine falcon) Brightbill learns how to fly. Soon Brightbill has left his home and Roz has no job. Roz is in her hut she built for Brightbill and shuts off. Fink turns her on and says a bunch of animals are freezing to death (because it’s winter). Roz agrees and helps turn the hut into a sanctuary for frozen animals.
Soon it’s spring again and Brightbill returns. Just as everyone is settling down a ship appears. A space ship. In the ship is Votra and 3 body guard robots. They are sent here to reclaim Roz. Roz and the animals put up a fight against the other robots.
Roz eventually sees that she is the problem after an animal gets hurt. So she agrees and joins Votra onto the ship. Together they fly back to Roz’s maker.
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