{"id":3600,"date":"2013-06-15T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T08:49:17","slug":"the-cats-of-montmaray-plus-les-chats-du-chateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-cats-of-montmaray-plus-les-chats-du-chateau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cats of Montmaray (Plus, Les Chats Du Ch\u00e2teau)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know this blog has been rather Montmaray-heavy lately, and I will<\/em> get back to my usual (non-Montmaravian) book ramblings soon, but I just had to share this with you. Ellie Maish, a very talented teenage artist, has created an amazing picture book based on A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em><\/a> as a school project. Ellie has kindly allowed me to post some of the pictures from her book, The Cats of Montmaray<\/em>, here. And yes, the Montmaravians are all portrayed as cats. Here are a few of the characters:<\/p>\n

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Don’t you love spiky John-Cat and worshipful Rebecca-Cat? And how Simon-Cat and Veronica-Cat are pointedly looking in opposite directions?<\/p>\n

Here’s a scene in the Great Hall featuring the Faberg\u00e9 egg:<\/p>\n

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All the castle scenes are beautifully realised in collage form, but I particularly liked the ornate Gold Room. Whatever you do, don’t<\/strong> flop on the bed:<\/p>\n

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There’s plenty of action and adventure, too. On this page, Sophie-Cat is horrified by the sight of the dead . . . well, he’s not actually a dead Nazi in this book. He’s an evil hawk, with two-inch-long talons and a sharp beak that could easily carry off a defenceless cat. He still ends up dead under a rug, though:<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it great? Thanks, Ellie.<\/p>\n

In other Montmaravian news, a French university student who translated A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em> as part of her studies has sent me the translation, and I am very impressed. Mind you, I can’t actually read<\/em> French, but the text looks so much more elegant in French than it does in English. I am having lots of fun reading about “Carlos, notre chien d’eau portugais” and “les pigeons voyageurs” and, of course, “les chats du ch\u00e2teau”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know this blog has been rather Montmaray-heavy lately, and I will get back to my usual (non-Montmaravian) book ramblings soon, but I just had to share this with you. Ellie Maish, a very talented teenage artist, has created an amazing picture book based on A Brief History of Montmaray as a school project. Ellie … Continue reading The Cats of Montmaray (Plus, Les Chats Du Ch\u00e2teau)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-montmaray-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}