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  MICHAEL FOREMAN grew up in a small English fishing village and has loved the sea ever since. He has illustrated more than one hundred children’s books, and he has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Smarties Book Prize, and the Federation of Children’s Book Groups’ Red House Children’s Book Award. He has collaborated with Michael Morpurgo on several successful books, including THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS AND BILLY THE KID.

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  Credits

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  Cover art © 2008 by Michael Foreman

  Cover design by Torborg Davern

  Copyright

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  Kaspar the Titanic Cat

  Text copyright © 2008 by Michael Morpurgo

  Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Michael Foreman

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Morpurgo, Michael.

  Kaspar the Titanic cat / Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman.—1st American ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bellboy at London’s Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats; when Kaspar is adopted by the Stanton family, Johnny stows away on the Titanic to travel with them to New York.

  ISBN 978-0-06-200618-9 (trade bdg.)

  EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062121240

  [1. Conduct of life—Fiction. 2. Bellhops—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. Cats—Fiction. 5. Stowaways—Fiction. 6. Titanic (Steamship)—Fiction. 7. New York (N.Y.)—History—20th century—Fiction. 8. London (England)—History—20th century—Fiction. 9. Great Britain—History—George V, 1910–1936—Fiction.] I. Foreman, Michael, date, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.M82712Kas 2011

  2011009148

  [Fic]—dc22

  CIP

  AC

  12 13 14 15 16 CG/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  First American Edition

  First published in Great Britain as Kaspar Prince of Cats

  by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2008

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