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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407098920
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

The Catlady




Another wonderful animal story from the bestselling Dick King-Smith, involving cats, reincarnation and a very eccentric old lady!

Muriel lives alone with lots and lots and lots of cats. But Muriel's cats are no ordinary cats - they were once people she knew, now reincarnated in feline form! Muriel shares her house with various (deceased!) members of her family, and one rather special cat - the late Queen Victoria! An unusual tale of animal madness!

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407098920
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

About the author

Dick King-Smith

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children’s books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry’s Mad, Noah’s Brother, The Queen’s Nose, Martin’s Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet’s Hare (winner of the Children’s Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children’s Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children’s literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at: dickkingsmith.com

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Praise for The Catlady

A delightful story

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

A purrrfect read for any animal lover or fan of adventure stories about out-of-the-ordinary animals

Stuff4Kidz

Another enjoyable story from an author who excels in giving animals real character

Junior

Charming

The Good Book Guide

From the master of animal adventures

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