Millions of Cats belongs to the public domain and was originally written by Wanda Gag in 1928. The book won the Newberry Honor Award in 1929. Her large artistic family, two parents and seven siblings, fled from Germany to Michigan to begin a new life in a free country. Her family, back then, were called gypsies. Being called a gyspy wasn't very nice. A gyspy was a minority group of people living outside society on their own terms. I don't see any harm in that.

I changed only a smidgen of the original story. In Wanda's story, the cats quarrel and, "maybe they ate each other." In my retelling, " they ran off and disappeared."

I am finding that a LOT of children's stories from the late 1800-early 1900 could be violent. So, when I retell them, I take a liberty here and there to make the story suit my voice and a child's ear.

I hope you like this week's retelling and consider following this journey of story telling - see you next week.

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Royalty free music from artist.io: Amos Ever Hadani: Sophy with the sad eyes.

Copyright Laws: Stories and characters from myths, legends, and folklore fall under the ⁠⁠public domain⁠⁠. What does this mean? In intellectual property law, the public domain concerns IP objects that, for certain reasons, are free from exclusive IP rights. These IP rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or inapplicable. Essentially, the stories from these categories belong to the world.