Katzenmusik

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Inhalt

Jedes Mal, wenn sie Junge hat, schärft die Katzenmutter ihren Kindern ein: „Vergesst nie, dass eure Ur-ur-urgroßmutter eine ägyptische Tempelkatze war!“ Und um sie an ihre vornehme Abstammung zu erinnern, nennt sie ihre Kinder immer Wahed, Tani und Talet: Erste, Zweite und Dritte. Tani ist nur die zweite, dafür aber die mutigste der drei Kätzchen. Sie findet einen Violinschlüssel, den eine Elster hat fallen lassen. Wenn sie damit an ein Musikinstrument streicht, erklingt wundervolle Musik. Als musikalische Wunderkatze wird Tani berühmt – und von Gangstern gekidnappt. Ein Katzenkrimi – voll Spannung und Humor – eine echte Renate Welsh!

Summary

In her first venture into the world beyond the cat basket, a magpie drops a treble clef and it hits Tani on her head. She finds it comforting to nibble on the smooth silvery object. Mother cat carries her back to the flat she shares with Simon, her human, and Tani rubs her head on his guitar. Simon is thrilled that his fingers work as never before. The music he plays sounds as he has always hoped it might. He suspects that his new ability might have something to do with the kitten and takes her to his girlfriend’s. The magic is repeated with her cello, in their excitement the young couple take Tani to the local music school and find out that it works on every instrument. The story gets into the papers and into the media. Of course clever managers realize that there is a lot of money to be made out of this “Mozart of Cat”. When Tani is kidnapped by a pop band she drops the treble clef and without it she can no more lure the hidden music out of an instrument than any other cat. If it had not been for Mickey, the son of the trumpeter who is tasked with catsitting her, Tani would have been in very serious trouble indeed. Simon and Cath are extremely worried once they find the treble clef. They realize that this must be the secret of the music. In the end, they are all quite relieved when the treble clef disappears as it came, in the beak of a magpie.