AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

King o' the Cats

par Aaron Shepard

Autres auteurs: Kristin Sorra (Illustrateur)

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneDiscussions
296814,914 (3.63)Aucun
A church sexton, known for his wild tales, has three weird encounters with magical cats and can't convince Father Allen that they really happened, until the priest's cat shows an intense interest.
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

Affichage de 1-5 de 6 (suivant | tout afficher)
A young sexton with a reputation for telling tall tales, Peter finds it difficult to convince Father Allen that the extraordinary things he's been seeing are real. Who would believe a story about a large black cat being crowned in the church? Or the tale of a group of cats, mounted on foxes, hunting a dog? Peter is on the verge of being dismissed from his job when he brings one final story to Father Allen. But then the father's own cat does something very surprising...

According to Aaron Shepard's brief note, this traditional English story was originally found in Joseph Jacobs' 1894 collection, More English Fair Tales, and variants of it can be found in other European folk traditions. I found the story here engaging, and appreciated some of the humorous details, such as the fact that the town is called 'Tabby-on-Thames.' The accompanying illustrations from Kristin Sorra, whose artwork I know from another feline picture-book, Scarlett the Cat to the Rescue: Fire Hero, is colorful and cute, in a stylized, cartoon-like way. Recommended to young folklore enthusiasts, as well as to young cat lovers. ( )
  AbigailAdams26 | Aug 28, 2020 |
King o' the Cats is written by Aaron Shepard and illustrated by Kristin Sorra. This is folk tale that closely resembles Peter and the Wolf. It's about a young church sexton, who is known around town as a liar. He is always telling the most insane stories ever heard. But when things really do start to get weird, no one will believe him. He begins to see many strange occurrences involving the cats around town. They're having meetings, hunting dogs, and having a funeral. Each time the young boy runs to tell the one person he thinks will believe him, Father Allan, but he is wrong. Father Allan doesn't believe him until the proof reveals itself right before his eyes. The story is charmingly, funny and is helped by the fact that the art is great on the eyes. ( )
  bwaresam | Sep 18, 2016 |
A young man named Peter likes to tell wild stories, which has cost him all of his jobs in the past. Because of this, when he sees a bunch of cats acting like humans, his current employer (Father Allen) does not believe him. It isn't until the King of the Cats dies and Father Allen's own cat, Tom, declares himself the new king that anyone believes him.

This is a very cute and very interesting story that reminded me a little bit of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. I loved the humorous way it was written, especially the parts between Tom and Peter where Tom "meowed" and Peter said "Yes, just like that." ( )
  NRedler | Feb 18, 2016 |
This was sort of a boy-cries-wolf kind of story. Peter swears the cats are up to no good and no one will believe him because he is known to tell tall tales. It's very interesting when the tables turn on Father Allen. ( )
  ravjohns | Nov 21, 2013 |
(On behalf of my 8 year old: humouress)

I think it was a really good book and it was quite interesting and I would recommend this book to anyone.

It's about a boy who lives with his father behind a church and his father is a priest and he has this great big fault about telling wild stories and one day he sees lights in the church when no-one is supposed to be there and when he looks into the curtain he sees a hundred cats and one great big cat on the steps with a big bishop cat and he finds out that they've been going and doing stuff like ... and the cat who was crowned king died by hitting a rock and the king cat was actually the boy's cat's brother. ( )
  superboy | Aug 20, 2012 |
Affichage de 1-5 de 6 (suivant | tout afficher)
aucune critique | ajouter une critique

» Ajouter d'autres auteur(e)s

Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Aaron Shepardauteur principaltoutes les éditionscalculé
Sorra, KristinIllustrateurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais

Aucun

A church sexton, known for his wild tales, has three weird encounters with magical cats and can't convince Father Allen that they really happened, until the priest's cat shows an intense interest.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.63)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3 3
3.5
4 5
4.5
5

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 204,827,794 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible