![]() ![]() ![]() 3)Īnd Gareth justifies this in terms familiar to any cat owner: Anywhere, any time, any country, any century.” (p. ![]() With a difference… I can visit nine different lives. The “mythology” of this novel is that the human folk belief that cats have nine lives isn’t quite right. Time Cat is the story of a cat, Gareth, and his human, a boy named Jason. I got interested in this book while researching my latest monograph, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy, because of the way it paved the way for Prydain – but more on this below! It came before the Prydain books, and helped him find his voice and confidence to write for children. This was an important book for Alexander’s career as a children’s fantasy author. ![]() I’ve been threatening with a blog post about a time-traveling cat for a while now, so here it is! I’m giving you Lloyd Alexander’s children’s fantasy Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth, what we’d probably call a middle grade novel today, originally published in 1963, and very much still in print, though not as well-known in the UK as (I suspect) in the USA. Figure 1: one of the cover designs for Time Cat ![]()
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