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9	[[quoteright:222:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timecat_4175.PNG]]
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11	A [[ChildrensLiterature children's novel]] written by Creator/LloydAlexander and published in 1963.
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13	The novel starts off with the protagonist, Jason, a boy who is having a bad day. His black cat, Gareth, enlightens him to the fact that [[CatsAreMagic cats have magical qualities]] that allow them to speak and travel through space and time at will. Together, Jason and Gareth travel through various periods and locations throughout history on a series of adventures involving cats.
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15	!!This novel provides examples of the following tropes:
16	* BattleDiscretionShot: A lot of the historical events in ''Literature/TimeCat'' are known to have ended less than peaceably, and Gareth and Jason conveniently skip out of time for a lot of them.
17	* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Gareth and Jason ensure that a witch-hunter is himself accused of magic.
18	* BeenThereShapedHistory: Jason ends up being a part of many historical events and meeting and influencing various famous figures from the past during his adventures with Gareth.
19	%% * BittersweetEnding
20	* CatsAreMagic: Cats can talk and transport themselves anywhere in space or time that they choose.
21	* AChildShallLeadThem: When Jason and Gareth travel to 10th century Japan, they meet Emperor Ichigo, who's barely older than Jason himself.
22	* CuteKitten: Everyone falls in love with the Manx cat's kittens.
23	%% * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jason, mostly.
24	* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Jason and Gareth are often captured and held somewhere against their will. Despite having the power to travel to any point in space or time, Gareth never uses his magic to allow them to both escape. Justified in that he only has nine goes, and so presumably doesn't want to use the abilities more than necessary.
25	%% * HistoricalInJoke
26	%% * IntellectualAnimal: [[spoiler: What Gareth becomes to Jason after their trips through time are over]].
27	%% * KindheartedCatLover
28	* TheMasquerade: Cats can talk, travel through the space-time continuum at will, and perform all sorts of secondary magics, but keep it a complete secret from humans.
29	* MundaneUtility: In general, cats use their [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro power]] to get out of locked rooms and other places they find unpleasant.
30	* NotSoStoic: Gareth is an old school sort of teacher to Jason; focused, no-nonsense, a little aloof. [[spoiler:He also takes a quick break to impregnate a wildcat.]]
31	* OrWasItADream: After their adventures, Jason wakes up at home from a nap to an unspeaking Gareth. [[spoiler: But still has an ankh that he kept from when the two were in ancient Egypt.]]
32	%% * StableTimeLoop
33	%% * TalkingAnimal: Gareth.
34	* TranslatorMicrobes: Gareth's magic allows Jason to understand and speak the common language of whatever place and time period he's in.
35	* AWizardDidIt: Gareth's power, which allows Jason to blend in to his temporal and cultural surroundings nearly seamlessly. It gives him TranslatorMicrobes, adapts his clothes to current fashions and presumably keeps him from contracting common pathogens of the times and dying before he gets back.
36	* YearInsideHourOutside: Many of the trips occur over several days or even months, but once it's over only half an hour has passed in the present.

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