The Chinese Siamese Cat

Name: The Chinese Siamese Cat
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Amy Tan
ISBN: 9781597771825

Author: Amy Tan

Narrator: Amy Tan

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.

Published: 10/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

A naughty white kitten, Sagwa, comes from a long line of royal Chinese cats. Her mischief changes the spirit of a cruel magistrate and helps shape the future for her ancestors. This beautiful story illustrates why Siamese cats are really Chinese cats and why their faces, ears, paws, and tails turn darker as they grow up Read by the author, Amy Tan's light, airy voice enchants listeners of all ages with this charming bedtime story.

About Amy Tan

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie aka Booklass

Wonderful children's book, captivated my son and daughter both, PBS series was based on book, also a gem.......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

Why do Siamese cats have dark ears, paws, and tails? Sagwa is a pearly-white Chinese kitten who lives with her parents, Baba and Mama Miao, and her two siblings, Dongwa and Sheegwa, in the House of the Foolish Magistrate, who is in charge of issuing rules for all the people and animals in his provin......more

Goodreads review by Cindie

2 of my 3 kids loved this book. The same 2 of 3 even love the PBS series which is based upon it. Ironically, the one that is not of the 2 is taking Mandarin. go figure......more