A Cat of a Different Color - Hardcover

Bauer, Steven

 
9780385327107: A Cat of a Different Color
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385327102 ISBN 13: 9780385327107
Verlag: Delacorte Pr, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

When the greedy new mayor, Hoytie, takes over control of the town and begins destroying every bit of happiness for all its residents, Ulwazzer, the magical cat, returns from his great journey to help his neighbors and set things right once again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Bauer is the author of an adult fantasy novel and a humorous picture book.

Tim Raglin has worked extensively in the editorial field and has illustrated numerous children's books.

Aus dem Klappentext

at and a clever young girl help save their troubled village in this rollicking, humor-filled tale.

A remarkable cat was once born in the little town of Felicity-by-the-Lake, a cat with fur that seemed to shift color in the slightest breeze. His name was Ulwazzer, and he was a wanderer; he spent months at a time roaming the world. Sooner or later, though, he always returned to the beautiful place where he'd first opened his eyes.

But on one visit, Ulwazzer found that his village had changed. A gloomy silence hung over the houses. The lake was empty of swimmers, and there was no giggling crowd at the ice cream shop. Instead, there was a greedy new mayor named Hoytie who was in the process of claiming every town pleasure for himself and his family.

Could clever Ulwazzer find a way to save the town? Would the help of a kind girl named Daria and a team of angry waterfowl be enough to defeat the mayor? All the cat knew was that he had to try.

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Felicity-by-the-Lake

In a village near a silver lake, at the bottom of a range of jagged mountains, three kittens were born in the same litter. Two of them were common enough. They had wide, astonished, watery blue eyes, and gray coats stippled with black, and paws as white as if they'd been dipped in heavy cream, and when the kittens were ten weeks old, those villagers who wanted a pet came round to the house where the kittens had been born and these two were quickly chosen.

Their names were Flumadiddle and Gigamaree, and until they grew to be a year old, they looked so very much alike that sometimes Mr. Mayapple, the man who chose poor Gigamaree, would call, ""There you are, you worthless welp!'' when he saw Flumadiddle. And sometimes Miss Gagney, who fussed and fiddled over Flumadiddle, would mournfully call, ""Why do you disobey me? I saw you prowling outside last night!'' This would sorely hurt Flumadiddle's feelings, for it was her brother Gigamaree who stalked the streets, while Flumadiddle was a close-to-the-fireside cat, and she knew it was Gigamaree whom Miss Gagney had seen.

But from the start no one mistook the third cat for anyone but himself. He had fur that seemed to shift in hue in the slightest breeze—fur the color of burning leaves, then fur the color of smoke. His eyes were the palest amber, and the hair on his belly was as whorled as the shapes the villagers' breath made on winter mornings. When he was still a tiny kitten, he'd fallen from a footstool into a large bucket of water, and rather than panicking, he'd seemed quite content to be soaked clear through—which was very odd, for most cats hate even the thought of getting wet. The villagers called him the-cat-who-loves-water, or, in the dialect of that part of the country, Ulwazzer, and because he was so strange, so unlike any cat that anyone had ever seen before, no one would take him home. He was preternaturally calm, they said, and probably possessed, and who wanted a cat who might raise the hair on your neck by yowling in the dark, who might turn on you when least expected, or leap on your face in the night?

For a while after Ulwazzer's brother and sister had been taken away, he was very lonely. As kittens the three had tumbled together, play-fighting, pouncing on bits of string, darting off with no warning as if the world were on fire. Now that the others had homes of their own, he rarely saw them, and when it became clear that both his parents and his parents' owners were wary of him, he understood that he would be forced to make his way in life by himself.

At first he roamed only as far as the lake outside of town. But as time passed he ventured farther and farther from home, until the wide world itself seemed the place he belonged. Still, sooner or later he always returned to the village where he'd been born, because it was the first place he'd seen when his eyes had opened, and because it was beautiful.

Now, this village was named Felicity-by-the-Lake, and the people who lived there were a contented and friendly bunch who liked each other and themselves and felt it was their good fortune to have found such a lovely and peaceable home. The village was small enough to be comfortable yet big enough to provide everything its inhabitants might need. Its streets were paved with cobblestones and lit at night by three-globed street-lamps. At its center stood a fountain and a statue of the town's first mayor, and all around the square were cafes and shops selling leather goods and lake-water taffy, silver tankards, and roasted meats on sticks.

In winter, when snow swirled down from the mountains and landed like thick icing on the thatched roofs of the village, people scurried through the streets with reddened cheeks, their hands tucked neatly into woolen muffs. The smell of woodsmoke and roasted chestnuts hung in the air, and down at the lake, skaters would glide over the ice in long glancing strides, scarves snug around their necks as they gazed upon the world's cold beauty.


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Verlag
Delacorte Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385327102
ISBN 13 
9780385327107
Einband
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Zeichner
Raglin Tim
Anzahl der Seiten
197
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