The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Hiro Arikawa,
Arikawa

An ode to kindness, sacrifice, and the power of small things traces the experiences of adventurous Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they embark on a road trip across Japan to visit three old friends.—Baker & Taylor



"Told from the perspective of a cat, this is a beautiful and bittersweet story of the cat and his human."—Submitted by Tressa R., Materials Handler


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Oreo


  • Growth of the Soil


  • The Last Wish


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • The Little Prince


  • VALIS


  • Wolf Hall


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Dark of the Moon


  • The Snowy Day


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • In Full Color


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Gilead


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • The Library


  • X'ed Out


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Rural Free


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Providence


  • The Raven Boys


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Riddley Walker


  • The Wild Robot


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • The Go-Between


  • Wild Beauty


  • Fog Island


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Unterzakhn


  • Foundryside


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Suttree


  • Hopscotch


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • The Index Card


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Life


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Goldfinch


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Figuring


  • Six Seasons


  • Giver of Stars


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Snow Child


  • Ulysses


  • The Eye of Minds


  • The Never Game


  • Siddhartha


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Copper Beach


  • The Stand


  • Running with Sherman


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • The Lost Coast


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Robin


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • War and Peace


  • Cannery Row


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • The King's Stilts


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • A Little Princess


  • The Shipping News


  • Persepolis


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Watchmen


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • Cinder


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • The Friend


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • The Silmarillion


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Birdie and Me


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • I Know This Much is True


  • The Pirate Coast


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • The Shell Seekers


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • The Stardust Road


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Jane Eyre


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Dietland


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Wired


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Big Sur


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • East of Eden


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • The Ghost Clause


  • Little Bear


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • The Blue Sword


  • What is the What


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Oleanna


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • The Music Lesson


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Far Field


  • Travels With Charley


  • Patriot Games


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Color Monster


  • Sunny


  • Strange Planet


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Dawn


  • Dune


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • The Woman in White


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Under the Volcano


  • Lost Horizon


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Word Is Murder


  • Station Eleven


  • Dragon Bound


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • Catch 22


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Naked Lunch


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • On A Sunbeam


  • Through a Life


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • True Grit


  • Raintree County


  • Dune Messiah


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows