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  • Published: 1 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780552564342
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

To Be A Cat




From the winner of the Blue Peter Award, this is a funny, dark and exciting story about what it's like to wake up as a cat!

From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.

*'A clawed masterpiece' - Guardian*

Barney Willow's life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him. And evil headteacher Miss Whipmire seems determined to make Barney's existence a complete misery! Worst of all, Dad has been missing for almost a year - and there's no sign of him ever coming home.

Barney just wants to escape. To find another life. To be a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy cat. Things would be so much easier - wouldn't they?

A darkly funny and adventurous tale from multi-award-winning author Matt Haig.

  • Published: 1 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780552564342
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for To Be A Cat

I loved To Be A Cat . . . Very funny and surprising

John Boyne

Here is the black comedy that made Matt Haig's Shadow Forest so irresistible

The Times

A clawed masterpiece . . . A book about being comfortable in your own skin rather than someone else's fur

Philip Ardagh, Guardian

Darkly comic and richly rewarding . . . Shines with originality

Telegraph

A terrific yarn

Independent on Sunday