I am Maru: bio-book on world's most internet-famous cat, now in English

One of my greatest regrets about my recent trip to Japan? I didn't manage to meet Maru.

Today, there's news that provides some consolation. The story of Maru, a Scottish Fold cat of great internet fame, will soon be available in book form for English-language audiences.

In I Am Maru (out Aug 23 in hardback), the kitty's owner mugumogu "gives readers a peek into the low-key life of the world’s most famous cat," and an insider's view on all his favorite hiding places around the house: trash cans, cupboards, cereal boxes, you name it. "If it’s cozy, he’s there."

Thank you for making the internet a sweeter place, Maru. Let's hang out sometime, when you're done promoting that new Mac operating system? As one YouTube commenter put it, "Some people want to meet Justin Bieber or Barack Obama. I just want to meet this cat."

Here's an Amazon link for the book (don't miss the book trailer videos on that page, they're hilarious). Here is the Maru blog, and here's the publisher's feature page (Harper-Collins).

Video Link from mugumogu's channel: Below, "A Box and Maru." And there are many more Maru videos here. I recommend watching them any time you need happiness.

(thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

• Maru the Cat
• Breaking news from Japan: Maru the internet-famous cat is safe and sound.
• Tiny boxes can’t thwart box-loving cat

• [Chuck Ivy]

  He’s no Oolong the Rabbit, may he rest in peace with pancakes balanced on his head…

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    [Pours out sake on the ground for Oolong]

• [Christina Mosteller Hall]

  Want to hug him.

  • [Spitty Sumo]

    this, and kiss his nose freckle!

• [Laura Padilla]

  I want to see Maru sitting on a copy of the book, and then jumping in and out of the box that the book came in.

  • [cymk]

    http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-963.html

    here you go

    • [Laura Padilla]

      Thanks! The “It is neither tuna nor chicken” picture made my day.

  • [Amphigorey]

    Wish granted ;) http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-963.html

  • [The_Thnikkaman]

    That’s actually on her blog:

    http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-963.html

    EDIT – Oh, didn’t see everyone else had already posted it…

• [jtropp1]

  Um, what’s with #3 on the Amazon list of Bestsellers in Cat Care?

  (“Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language”)http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/5045/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_4_last

  • [Robert Cruickshank]

    ha! I will bet money that that’s because somebody or something thought that “cat cracker”was some sort of feline snack.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_cracker

• [mtdna]

  What do you think he would do if you took him to a box factory? Wooo Hooo!

• [cymk]

  I for one welcome our new box-loving kitty overlord.

• [Eduardo Maçan]

  I prefer Ada, my cat. She likes to fetch objects http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nOc8x6-dU :)

  She keeps bringing her toy mouse (or any other object she seems fit) to me, it get almost impossible to perform any kind of work when I’m home :)

• [Sekino]

  Looks like a beautiful book: The cover alone is lovely (I love how the typeface uses the colours of the cat).

• [Otto Lipschitz]

  That’s not longcat

• [franko]

  i freakin’ LOVE maru. how can one cat be so thoroughly awesome?? i had no idea this book was coming, and i follow maru’s youtube channel. blindsided by kitteh! ^_^

• [Ty Fowle]

  He also has a Tumblr page, for those who are interested.
  http://maruthecat.tumblr.com/

• [flyingmonkey]

  Maruchan is my 19-month-year-old son’s favourite thing in the world. Even more so than our own cats.  

• [Matthew Petty]

  I love how Maru apparently lives in one of those escape-the-room flash puzzle games. Especially those by Tesshi-M: http://tesshi-m.web.infoseek.co.jp/