Kaspar: Prince of Cats
Michael Morpurgo
Johnny Trott is an orphan working as a bell-boy at the grand Savoy Hotel in London in 1912. One day a famous opera singer arrives with a black cat in a basket, and Johnny soon finds that looking after Kaspar, the Prince of Cats, is about to turn his life upside down.
- Length
- About 40,000 words
- To read it
- About 27 days
- Stage
- Key Stage 2
Reading time at 1,500 words a day, the pace we start from until we know your child’s own.
Where it is taught
Why Kaspar: Prince of Cats is on the list
- Year 5, Core. The books most schools teach in this year. A good place to start.
Reading it here
What your child does with it
- 1
Choose it and set a finish date
You get a suggested target from the length of the book and your child's reading pace.
- 2
Check in along the way
A longer book has short check-ins every week or two, so it keeps moving and nothing is forgotten.
- 3
Answer two questions
When they finish: a review of the book, and a deeper question about how it works.
- 4
Get it marked, and redraft
Every answer is marked against the rubric for their year, with a reason for every score.