Jun 09
Click for full imageArt Direction: Who cares about cat people! Just get a giant long haired cat on there. Someday the world will know the glory of cats doing… stuff… but until then we’ll use one to sell books.
Published 1980 (maybe)
(Average: 5.74 out of 10)
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June 9th, 2011 at 9:03 am
The trouble with megatribbles.
June 9th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Yeah, who’s scared of lions and tigers when we have Tiddles?
June 9th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
There kitty, nice kitty, now just let Llyr into the corner so I can get my pants and I’ll leave the room all to you.
June 9th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
This is my guard cat twinkles. Just as good as any dog. He sleeps mainly, sometimes eats, looks disinterested with most things but let me tell you. Get between him and something shiny…
June 9th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I just read this book! Second or third time at least. Not exactly the same cover, but definitely had the big freakin’ kitty cat on it.
June 9th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
At least the giant cat does appear in the story.
June 9th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I can has a tunic? I really liked these books but I never read the last one since I was worried everyone would die.
June 9th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
No one else has done it, so I will happily conflate a couple of the earlier comments to get this: The Trouble With Tiddles.
In the topmost blurb, I can’t help seeing TarZan (where it clearly says Taran).
And finally… Big cat? Or little man? Who can tell?
June 9th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Good lord. Think of the hairballs. They’d be like disgusting pillows.
June 9th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Although I do think the giant cat flap is likely to be a major defensive flaw in the Castle of Llyr.
June 10th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Note how there is no furniture.
June 11th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
“Not exactly the same cover, but definitely had the big freakin’ kitty cat on it.”
this one?
http://www.pixiepalace.com/bookblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/TheCastleOfLlyr.jpg
June 12th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Yeah there’s no furniture. Probably all clawed to splinters. Also, try moving that thing of a chair when it does’nt want to be moved.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
“Now where did my contact fall down at! Oh sh…”
June 21st, 2011 at 2:56 am
Haha, I kind of love this cover. Reminds of when I was a kid and would have my cat attack my GI Joe action figures.
June 28th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
As someone else said, at least the cat (Llyan is her name) does appear in the book. The original 1966 hardback cover:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/CastleofLlyr1stEdition.JPG
June 29th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Hey you stupid little man, can’t you watch where you walk? Look what you did to my tail!
September 29th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
One does not simply Tank Cat into Mordor.
But, if you did, this would be the first step. 😀
October 1st, 2013 at 10:40 pm
The mood, the shadow. It’s almost a Rembrandt.
I wonder if canvas prints are available?
March 11th, 2014 at 8:36 pm
Man, I used to gobble up Lloyd Alexander books as a kid. Many of them contained cats (and also girls with ‘red-gold hair’, whatever that is). I don’t remember a giant, angry cat.
March 13th, 2014 at 3:29 am
@Tom Noir: Believe it or not, that’s an accurate scene from the book. The giant kitteh – Llyan – is the result of a moderately-successful “make-things-big” potion – and IIRC becomes the “steed” for one of the heroes for the remainder of the series.
March 27th, 2015 at 6:08 am
Yes I know I forgot to toss a dryer sheet in. But it’s not that bad. Really. You don’t look bad at all. What’s that? Stop smiling then? Oh I wish I could. Go ahead and eat me. You won’t look any less idiotic when you have.
December 17th, 2015 at 7:55 pm
Has the cat been enlarged, or has the human been shrunk?
February 28th, 2022 at 8:15 am
See, this is why I’m a dog person.