The Nine Lives of Montezuma

Love Morpurgo’s animal stories? This mighty cat’s adventures will be your purrfect pleasure. Truly majestic storytelling about a king of cats: fiery Montezuma, who rules over them all. Named after an Aztec king, Montezuma is the emperor of the farmyard. Watch him grow from naughty kitten to a grand old tomcat: always regal, cunning and proud – a law unto himself. His nine lives are full of triumphs and dangers. And Michael Morpurgo captures every moment of them all.

most of you liked this

Fun Stuff

Activities

If You Like Michael Morpurgo You'll Love...

What to read next if you love his stories of animals, adventure and war.
Michael Morpurgo Bumper Wordsearch

See if you can find these words from your favourite stories in the grid.
Michael Morpurgo Name That Book Quiz

Can you guess which Michael Morpurgo book these clues and quotes are from?
Michael Morpurgo Word Scramble

Can you re-arrange these words to discover more fantastic Michael Morpurgo book titles?

Recent reviews

Ravenclawcat

We have this in our library and i really have wanted to read this because i love cats!!! now I have it and it is great. I also love the description- it’s so good. it has lots of cliffhangers, followed by sad parts. it’s happy though, I like it a lot.

22 June 2016
micheal11

loved it

good

17 February 2016
Emerald07

not for me

I think it was sad

24 May 2015
mimicandyfloss

loved it

This is a really fun tale of a cat called Montezuma. It’s quite confusing at the start but then you get the hang of it. Each chapter has it’s own cliffhanger because each chapter is Montezuma’s life.

23 May 2015
moomin2001

loved it

This book is a tearful and a sad ending story. My best so far! It is good enough for a film.

28 March 2014

See all reviews

Who's reading this?

Authors

Michael Morpurgo

Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has written over 100 books for children, and has won a multitude of awards as well as serving as Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005.

Awards

Michael was the Children’s Laureate 2003-2005, and has won many awards including The Whitbread Prize For The Wreck of the Zanzibar, the Smarties prize for The Butterfly Lion the Blue Peter Award for Private Peaceful and the Red House award for Shadow.