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The Return of the

Killer Cat

Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands, and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults.

Her novel 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, and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award; Bill’s New Frock won a Smarties Prize and Madame Doubtfirehas become a major feature film.

Anne Fine was named Children’s Laureate in 2001.

Books by Anne Fine

Care of Henry

Countdown

Design-a-Pram

The Diary of a Killer Cat

The Haunting of Pip Parker

Jennifer’s Diary

Loudmouth Louis

Notso Hotso

Only a Show

Press Play

Roll Over Roly

The Same Old Story Every Year

Scaredy-Cat

Stranger Danger?

The Worst Child I Ever Had

How to Cross the Road without Turning into a Pizza

The James and Angus stories

The Return of the Killer Cat

Picture books

Poor Monty

Ruggles

ANNE FINE

The Return of the

Killer Cat

Illustrated by Steve Cox

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First published in hardback in Puffin Books 2003

Published in paperback in Puffin Books 2004

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Text copyright © Anne Fine, 2003

Illustrations copyright © Steve Cox, 2003

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The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

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ISBN: 978-0-14-193613-0

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