The Diary of a Killer Cat
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Publisher Description
Everyone loves the wickedly dry sense of humour of The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine.
Okay, Okay. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat.
Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about.
Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble?
The hilarious antics of Tuffy and his family as told by the killer cat himself.
'Anne Fine knows how to make readers laugh' Guardian
Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Anne Fine was named Children's Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.
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Fur and feathers fly freely in Fine's (Madame Doubtfire) wry first-person story of a not-so-fearsome feline. Tuffy's opening words set the tale's uproarious tone: "Okay, okay. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat. It's practically my job to go creeping around the garden after sweet little eensy-weensy birdy-pies." No sooner have Tuffy's owners buried the bird when the cat brings home a dead mouse (for whose death he does not take credit). After another burial, Tuffy appears with the next-door neighbor's pet rabbit dead, of course, and very dirty ("No one gets dragged the whole way across a garden, and through a hedge, and over another garden, and through a freshly oiled cat-door, and ends up looking as if he's just off to a party"). In a hilarious scenario, the family scrambles to wash and blow-dry the rabbit's fur and return it to its hutch before its owners suspect Tuffy's involvement in its demise. Cox's animated line drawings comically capture the humans' horrified reactions to Tuffy's antics and the pet's alternately smug and put-upon expressions. Fans of this cheeky fellow will meet an equally likeable narrator this one a crafty canine in Fine's Notso Hotso (), due out the same month. Ages 7-10.
