![]() ![]() Morgan soon becomes familiar with the roles of authors and illustrators and finds a way to help the publisher choose new ones.īut Morgan doesn’t forget what it was like to be on the streets and invites the stray cats in the neighbourhood to an evening of eating and dancing in what becomes a meeting place called The Cat’s Pyjamas! ![]() He learns to fend for himself until two years later an incident with a banana leads him to the publishing house. Sadly Morgan’s mum and sister are killed by a bomb. ![]() But as London becomes more dangerous Morgan must find a way to evacuate them and send them to safe homes… When the Blitz begins Morgan finds himself training up a group of kittens to be book cats. After becoming an orphan Morgan has to learn to fend for himself until he finds a home at Faber and Faber where he becomes Resident Mouser and Door Cat. The Story: Morgan and his sister, Maeve, are born in a London underground station in September 1940, on the night that the first enemy bombers arrive. This wonderfully heartwarming story is inspired by a cat who made his home in the offices of publisher Faber and Faber and was also the inspiration for a poem in T S Eliot’s Old Possums Book of Practical Cats. The Book Cat takes us back in time to London in World War Two. ![]()
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