Taking the Cat's Way Home (Sprinters)

Taking the Cat's Way Home (Sprinters)

by Mark Jan (Author), Howard Paul (Author)

Synopsis

A superb title in the new look Sprinters relaunch by a highly acclaimed children's author. Jane has a cat called Furlong. Every day, he walks to school with her and her friend Andrea. Then he takes his own way home. He's so furry that some people say he looks like a feather-duster. William, the new boy, says he looks like a loo brush. But then William is trouble from the moment be appears. He causes a division in the class and sets the boys against the girls. When he threatens Jane with violence, it seems the only way she can escape him is to take Furlong's secret path, along the wall, into the unknown..

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 59
Edition: New
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Published: 09 Jul 2001

ISBN 10: 0744582687
ISBN 13: 9780744582680
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years
Book Overview: Jan Mark has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal and has also won the Guardian Award and the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. She won the 1990 Mother Goose Award for Strat and Chatto .

Media Reviews
Deliciously satisfying. Books for Keeps; One of those rare people who can write for any age audience... The Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Jan Mark is one of the most acclaimed authors of books for young people. She has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal and has also won the Guardian Award and the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. Her many titles include the Walker picture book titles Fur; Strat and Chatto (winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award); Fun with Mrs Thumb; The Tale of Tobias; Lady Long Legs; The Midas Touch and The Lady with Iron Bones as well as God's Story; the non-fiction picture book This Bowl of Earth; another story for young readers, The Snow Maze and the travel book Great Frog and Mighty Moose.