Kaspar makes friends with one of the guests, Lizziebeth, only child of wealthy New York parents, who starts off being a "hoity-toity" know-it-all, but turns out to be a thoroughly good egg. Kaspar Prince of Cats opens in 1912 at the Savoy Hotel, when orphaned bell-boy Johnny Trott unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of Kaspar Kandinsky, "the most beautiful cat in all of Russia".
It isn't just Morpurgo's mastery of story-telling and Foreman's knack with elegant detail that children lap up: it's the way they click together like a toy. With Morpurgo as the words and Foreman as the pictures, they have collaborated on more than 20 titles since 1994, drawing from subjects as varied as King Arthur, gentle giants and a coma victim. After all, he's Prince Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Muscovite, a Londoner and a New Yorker, and as far as anyone knows, the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic.Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman occupy something of a unique position in children's publishing. Because everything changes with a cat like Kaspar around. Pretty soon, events are set in motion that will take Johnny - and Kaspar - all around the world, surviving theft, shipwreck and rooftop rescues along the way.
But Johnny didn't expect to end up with Kaspar on his hands forever, and nor did he count on making friends with Lizziebeth, a spirited American heiress. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's things to her room. Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. A heart-warming, colour-illustrated novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips.
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