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Varjak Paw
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  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409047667
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Varjak Paw

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15 Mar 2014
EBook
1 Oct 2010
Audiobook
3 Mar 2011
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The bestselling and award-winning modern classic, featuring stunning illustrations from Dave McKean.

This cat must learn to fight!
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten, who lives high up in an old house on a hill.
He's never left home, until he receives a mysterious visit from his grandfather who tells him about The Way - a secret martial art for cats.
Now Varjak must use the Way to survive in a city full of dangerous dogs, cat gangs and, strangest of all, the mysterious Vanishings.
With stunning illustrations from acclaimed graphic artist Dave McKean, this award-winning story has become a modern classic. A celebration of friendship, loyalty and difference, Varjak Paw is an adventure like no other.
Praise for Varjak Paw:
'Stylish, original and inventive, Varjak Paw is a modern children's classic' - Jacqueline Wilson
'A beguiling tale that sticks in the memory. The cat's whiskers' - The Sunday Times
Follow Varjak's further adventures in The Outlaw Varjak Paw.
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409047667
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the authors

SF Said

SF Said is an award-winning and bestselling children's author. He was born in Lebanon but has lived in London nearly all his life. His first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Children's Literature, was adapted for the stage, has sold over a million copies, and was included in BookTrust's 100 Best Children's Books of the Last 100 Years. The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. SF's third novel, Phoenix, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and nominated for both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. His latest book, Tyger, won Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, Children's Book of the Year (Older Fiction) at the Week Junior Book Awards, Foyles Children's Book of the Year, and was picked as a book of the year by the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Sun. It was also a New York Times bestseller. SF Said is a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature. He has judged the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book Awards (now the Costa Book Awards) and the Amnesty CILIP Honour. He has given talks at the British Library, the British Film Institute, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and on BBC Radio 4. He has also written extensively about children's and young adult fiction for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
portrait photo of SF Said

Dave McKean

Dave McKean is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture.

After a trip to New York in 1986, during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987. This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries (again with Gaiman) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics. Beginning in 1989 he produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman as well as all its collected editions and many of its spin-offs; and the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, with writer Grant Morrison (1989). McKean has gone on to collaborate further with Neil Gaiman in both print and film.
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Praise for Varjak Paw

A beguiling tale that sticks in the memory. The cat's whiskers

The Sunday Times

Stylish, original and inventive, Varjak Paw is a modern children's classic

Jacqueline Wilson

Dazzling

The New York Times

Compulsive reading; we are with Varjak every step of his way, willing him to succeed. Independent readers of 9 upwards will treasure it

The School Librarian

Brilliant

Richard Adams, author of Watership Down

Engrossing and exciting . . . with superbly atmospheric illustrations

Carousel

A beguiling tale that sticks in the memory. The cat's whiskers.

The Sunday Times

Stylish, original and inventive, VARJAK PAW is a modern children's classic

Jacqueline Wilson

Dazzling

New York Times