The shoemaker family in Holleschütz have got a tomcat named Purrkin. And Purrkin can talk. Together with his friends, the little piggy Paschik, the billy goat Bobesch and the shoemaker´s son Pepik, who has taught all of them to talk, he lives a happy tomcat life – until some day he has to go out into the big, wide world…

Josef Lada/Otfried Preußler

KATER MIKESCH

Purrkin the talking cat

166 pages with illustrations

of Josef Lada

H.R. Sauerländer Verlag, 1962

Translated into 6 languages