The hilarious antics of Tuffy and his family as told by the killer cat himself. Soon to be a 10-book series!
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?
<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/50b42d96-1a22-4333-9837-eecea0c03468/Screenshot_2021-02-01_at_17.50.01.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/50b42d96-1a22-4333-9837-eecea0c03468/Screenshot_2021-02-01_at_17.50.01.png" width="40px" /> 'OKAY, OKAY. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat.'
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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.
Extent: 64 pages (book 1)
Publisher : Penguin Random House 1994 (book 1)
Primary Agent: Anthony Goff
Film/TV Rights: DHA (Georgina Ruffhead)
Rights Sold: Chinese (Simplified) - Jieli; French - de l'Ecole des Loisirs; German - Moritz; Italian - Sonda; Korean - BIR; Portuguese - Edicoes SM**; Russian -** Samokat; Romanian - Paralela; Spanish and Catalan - Blackie Books; Spanish (LatAm) - Fonde Cultura Economica; Swedish - Lila Piratforlaget; Ukrainian - Vivat; Welsh - Rily
Co-Agents: Chinese - Andrew Nurnberg Associates ; Japanese - Tuttle Mori
Diary of a Killer Cat Sample Chapter.pdf
<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/ae907d82-50cb-4697-8c0c-5c36b87bd3aa/Screenshot_2021-02-01_at_17.50.01.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/ae907d82-50cb-4697-8c0c-5c36b87bd3aa/Screenshot_2021-02-01_at_17.50.01.png" width="40px" /> "If you had told me a few years ago that I was going to end up writing five books about a really grumpy and unpleasant cat - books that sell astonishingly well all over the world - I'd have scoffed at the idea.I don't even like cats much, tending to find them horribly snooty and stand-offish. I much prefer dogs.Then I read one of those marvellous urban myths. (That's one of those stories that always seems to start, "My uncle knows this man who knows this woman who..." and then goes on to tell some quite unbelievable tale.) This one was about a cat who...No! I won't spoil the story. So borrow The Diary of a Killer Cat from your local library (you can order it at the main desk if it's not on the shelf). And read it yourself.After that, people told me more and more stories that suited moody old Tuffy. As you can see, I didn't even stop at five books..."
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<aside> 🦉 'Anne Fine knows how to make readers laugh' - The Guardian
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<aside> 🦉 'Bullish, beastly and unapologetic, Tuffy the tomcat is a fantastically roguish hero.' - Independent
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