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Love is Protection. That is what I learned in reading this fairytale. This fairy tale can summarize that bad guys will do anything to get riches and love is a protection. Also using tactics in everything we do can have us think that it is important in this book. Reading this book will see if kids can understand the term Love.

Characters:

Duchess - Madame Adelaide's cat and mother of three kittens. She falls in love with Thomas and is forced to choose her life at home or a life with Thomas. Thomas O'Malley (full name: Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley) - A friendly alley cat who finds Duchess and her kittens stranded in the woods and befriends them, becoming a father figure to the kittens and falling in love with Duchess.

Edgar - Madame Adelaide's butler. He hopes to get rid of the cats in order to inherit Adelaide's fortune. Somehow he has better sense of morality as he chose to kidnap them rather than kill them. Scat Cat - Thomas's best friend and leader of a gang of jazz-loving alley cats. Scat Cat plays the trumpet. Toulouse - the oldest kitten, he aspires to meet a tough alley cat and adores Thomas as a father figure. He acts very tough at times and often gets into Marie's and Berlioz's nerves. Marie - As the middle kitten, not only is she very bossy at times, but she also believes that by being female, she is the best of the three kittens, despite physically being the weakest and most accident-prone. She, like Toulouse, grows to love Thomas like a father. Berlioz - the youngest kitten. He is somewhat timid and shy. Like Toulouse and Marie, he grows to love Thomas like a father. Roquefort - A mouse and also a friend of the cats. He attempts to find them after they are catnapped, but is unsuccessful. Shun Gon - a Chinese cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the piano and drums made out of pots. Hit Cat - an English cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays acoustic guitar. Peppo - an Italian cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the accordion. Billy Boss - a Russian cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays cello bass guitar. Napoleon - a Bloodhound who attacks Edgar when he intrudes in the farm, unknowingly saving the lives of Duchess and her kittens. Napoleon insists,

whenever cohort Lafayette makes a suggestion, that he is in charge then proceeds to adopt Lafayette's suggestion as his own.

Lafayette - a Basset Hound and Napoleon's companion. He sometimes proves to be smarter than Napoleon, despite Napoleon staunchly insisting that he is the leader of the farm dogs. Madame Adelaide Bonfamille - a former opera singer and owner of Duchess and her kittens. Georges Hautecourt - Madame Bonfamille's lawyer, a senile but lively old man who denies his old age and even refuses to accept Edgar's offer of using the elevator instead of the long staircase, resulting in brief chaos. Frou-Frou - Roquefort's horse companion and who plays a part in subduing Edgar. Abigail Gabble - a goose who finds the cats and tries to help them get home. Amelia Gabble - Abigail's twin sister. Uncle Waldo - the drunken uncle of the twin geese Abigail and Amelia. French Milkman the Driver/Le Petit Cafe Cook/Truck Movers

Settings
Paris, France Madame Adelaides Home France Country side Italian pasta restaurant

Plot
In Paris, France, in 1910, a mother cat named Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live in themansion of retired opera singer Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, along with her English butler Edgar. She early on settles herwill with her lawyer Georges Hautecourt, an aged, eccentric old friend of hers, stating that she wishes for her fortune to be left to her cats, who will retain it until their deaths, upon which her fortune will revert to Edgar. Edgar hears this from his own room through speaking tube and is unwilling to wait for the cats to die naturally before he inherits Madame Adelaide's fortune, and plots to remove the cats from a position of inheritance.

He sedates the cats by putting sleeping pills into the cats' food and then heads out into the countryside to release them in the wild. However he is attacked by two hound dogs, named Napoleon and Lafayette. Edgar escapes, leaving behind hisumbrella, hat, the cats' bed-basket, and the sidecar of his motorcycle. The cats are unharmed, but stranded in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse, and FrouFrou the horse discover their absence. In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse have a struggle returning to the city, briefly hitchhiking on the back of a milk cart before being chased off by the driver. Marie subsequently falls into a river and is saved by O'Malley. They then meet a pair of English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who are on a tour of France. The group head off, marching like geese, until they reach Paris and come across the girls' drunken Uncle Waldo. Abigail and Amelia then depart to take Waldo home. Travelling across the rooftops of the city, the cats meet Scat Cat and his band, close friends to O'Malley, who perform the song Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat. After the band has departed and the kittens lie in bed, O'Malley and Duchess spend the evening on a nearby rooftop and talk, while the kittens listen at a windowsill. The subject of their conversation is the question of whether Duchess may stay and marry Thomas. Eventually, she turns him down, largely out of loyalty to Madame Adelaide. Edgar, meanwhile, retrieves his sidecar, umbrella, and hat from Napoleon and Layafette with some difficulty, knowing that it's the only evidence that could incriminate him. The cats make it back to the mansion, whereupon O'Malley departs sadly. Edgar sees Duchess and Kittens coming and captures them, places them in a sack and briefly hides them in an oven. The cats tell Roquefort to pursue O'Malley and get help. He does so, whereupon O'Malley races back to the mansion, ordering Roquefort to find Scat Cat and his gang. Edgar places the cats in a trunk which he plans to send to Timbuktu, Africa. O'Malley, Scat Cat and his gang, and Frou-Frou all fight Edgar, while Roquefort frees Duchess and the kittens. In the end, Edgar is tipped into the trunk, locked inside, and sent to Timbuktu himself. Madame Adelaide's will is rewritten to exclude Edgar and include O'Malley (after ironically claiming that the will would have included Edgar after all). She starts a charity foundation providing a home for all of Paris' stray cats. The grand opening thereof, to which most of the major characters come, features Scat Cat's band, which perform a reprise of Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat.

Reaction
Reading this book is enjoying for the kids for the kids like animals also. It is also fun to read because of the plot that is made well. Although there are no special fantasies rather they have a love story that is enjoyable. In this book it has a genre that is all about love and protection of a mother to a child also it is discussed that we have special talents. Also its genre is compatible for the kids because kids love animations and music in todays time. Using a theme that is compatible to kids is a wise choice they had a modern old fashion style of writing the story and using characters that are of different sounding. Also it provides good start and good ending because children like a happily ever after endings. In conclusion I have seen the book good for reading and good for kids that love to read fairytales that animals are involved. And it is good for kids to learn a different perspective of love and protecting their love ones.