Lived a million times cat

Author: Yoko Sano
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: "The One Hundred Million Times Lived Cat" is not just a picture book for children, but also brings joy to adults. This should be the essence of picture books. "The One Hundred Million Times Lived Cat" captures the essence of picture books. It is an incredible story that can be accepted by both children and adults. This book might even save a failing marriage. In my classes teaching children's literature to undergraduates, master's students, doctoral students, and primary and secondary school teachers, I have repeatedly been moved to say: one "The One Hundred Million Times Lived Cat" is enough to make many adults take children's literature with fresh eyes! Selected by the Japan School Library Association, recommended by the Japan Central Children's Welfare Advisory Committee, with cumulative sales of 1.5 million copies!
There is a cat that cannot die for a million years. It has died a million times and lived a million times. A million people have loved it, and a million people have cried at its death, but it has never cried even once. It was once the king's cat, then a sailor's, a magician's, a thief's, an old widow's, and a little girl's cat, but it lived aimlessly, indifferent to everything, until one day, it became a wild cat that belonged only to itself. It fell in love with a beautiful white cat and only then did it first understand why it lived. When its beloved white cat died, this cat that had never cried in a million years finally let out a wail and died peacefully.
This is a legend of a cat, a great fable about life and death, love and affection. In Japan, it is hailed as "a picture book beloved by both adults and children, transcending generations," and is an eternal masterpiece that never grows tiresome even after being read a million times.