by Judith Kerr (Illustrator)
Everyone's favourite family cat is back in this beautiful picture book, reissued with a charming new cover. When Mog's garden disappears under an enormous white flappy thing, Mog is very unhappy and does A Bad Thing. But inside the white flappy thing a Cat Show is taking place, the perfect setting for Mog to make her family very proud indeed.
Format: Picture Book
Pages: 32
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 06 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0006647553
ISBN 13: 9780006647553
Children’s book age: 0-5 Years
Book Overview: Key title Everyone's favourite family cat is back in this beautiful picture book, reissued with a charming new cover. Sales of this title have already reached an incredible 50,000 copies. All the titles in this best-selling series are reissuing in a uniform format with new covers Judith Kerr is one of the best-loved children's authors of the twentieth century. Judith Kerr's books about Mog, the loveable, accident-prone cat, have entertained countless children for more than thirty years and sold over three million copies worldwide. The first story, 'Mog The Forgetful Cat' was published in 1970 and Mog has remained a favourite ever since. Judith Kerr is well loved for her classic picture book 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' which has sold over two million copies. Judith Kerr's first novel, 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit', won the prestigious Jugendbuchpreis in Germany and has sold over 500,000 copies. HarperCollins Children's Books are proud to be Judith Kerr's sole publisher. Competition: Orlando the Marmalade Cat, Harry the Dirty Dog
Praise for Mog the Forgetful Cat:
`Grandparents are likely to get as much fun out of seeing it again as the new generation of fans just learning to read!' Choice Magazine
Judith Kerr OBE was born in Berlin. Her family left Germany in 1933 to escape the rising Nazi party, and came to England. She studied at the Central School of Art and later worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC.
Judith married the celebrated screenwriter Nigel Kneale in 1954. She left the BBC to look after their two children, who inspired her first picture book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Published in 1968 and never out of print in the fifty years since, it has become a much-loved classic and perennial bestseller.
Judith celebrated her 95th birthday in 2018, was awarded the Booktrust Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, and continues to write and illustrate children's books from her home in London.