Tailchaser's Song?

[Lions]

Anybody read it?
I did a couple of years ago and I adored it - just need to find somewhere selling it or grab it off of Amazon now. :3

Its about a clan of feral cats, their mythology (pretty deep) and one cat called Tailchaser and his adventures.

Here's a wiki article:
Tailchaser's Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

.. here's a deviantart group devoted to it:
#Tailchasers-Song on deviantART

n___n that makes me happy.

[Heidi n Q]

I read it several years ago and enjoyed it, except for one aspect ... and it is the same problem I have with the Warrior's series of cat books: the deceit, violence and death is too reminiscent of how people behave and I had a problem dealing with the themes of death and dying in the books. Most especially the Warrior series as that is targeted at young adult readers and I wondered about having such adult/violent themes in them. However, it appears it is just *me* who has the issue, the kids don't seem to mind at all. *shrugs*

[Vivid Dawn]

I haven't read Tailchaser's Song yet... but I've been wanting to.

I kinda agree with Heidi about the Warrior series. Granted, feral cats can have hard lives, with lots of dangers to deal with... but it seemed there was at least a death every few chapters! Once a book, I could understand, but not several. Other than that, I liked Warriors just fine.

[LLM]

I loved Tailchaser's Song! I've been trying to get my father to read it.

[saitenyo]

Oh I loved this book! It's been so many years since I read it, but I definitely remember loving it. I should pick it up again sometime.

Anyone here read Wild Road and its sequel, The Golden Cat by Gabriel King?
Similar sort of themes (an intricate cat culture with some magic and adventure, about a little cat who becomes the chosen one to stop this dark figure from destroying the wild roads the cats use to travel).

[Presto]

I'm quite fond of Tailchaser's Song, and read it aloud to my husband shortly after we met. We refer to our cats as "Members of the Folk," and to squirrels as "the Rikchikchik." "Mmm, Eatbugs," was our favorite character, as was gentle Jumptall, whose death horrified and saddened us.

I didn't take the briefly expressed anti-neutering sentiment seriously, because of the context.

Please try Lloyd Alexander's books The Town Cats and Time Cat. These are in juvenile fiction, but they're written at several levels. In fact, it's better to read them aloud to children, or to adults. The first book is a series of short stories, hilarious. The second involves a cat and his boy. The cat doesn't have nine lives, but has nine visits, to any place at any time in history. He takes Jason with him. I used that book to teach my fourth grade classes about different foreign cultures at different periods in history, and they developed a strong affinity for cats in the process.

Lloyd was such a gentle soul. He and his wife were very much cat-lovers. They and their last, elderly cat, Nikk, died three years ago. I miss them.

[saitenyo]

Two other great cat books I've loved are The Book of Night with Moon and To Visit the Queen (sequel to the first) by Diane Duane. She's a fantastic author and I've always loved her Trek books, so these were a real treat to discover.

[Presto]

Thanks, Saitenyo; I'll order those two books.

Heidi, are the warrior books you spoke of, the ones about a girl with red hair and purple eyes, who has a twin brother? Yes, I had problems with those, too. Far too violent. What worried me the most was that in the end, when her cat is stomped on (to death) by her antagonist, that could give the target audience (kids) ideas--especially since the whole atmosphere of the series is one of violence. Someone I knew sent me the books, a young person who thought they were great. Uh-oh.

[Heidi n Q]

Presto, no. The Warrior books I mean are these, by psuedonym author(s) under 'Erin Hunter'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_(novel_series)

[Presto]

Thanks, Heidi. When I ordered the two books that Saitenyo recommended, a half-hour ago, I noticed that Amazon, in its usual manner, had the warrior books listed below as "Other people who ordered the above books also ordered...." I think I'll avoid these, as per advice.