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Some reviews of

The Diary of a Killer Cat

‘It’s hard to beat this great book’

– Junior magazine

‘How a cat can train an owner is hilariously

told by Tuffy himself in this witty commentary

on the strange behaviour of humans’

– Julia Eccleshare, LoveReadingforKids

‘This had me laughing aloud.

It’s an hilarious and easy read’ – Books for Keeps

Anne Fine lives in County Durham. She 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 Award, and Bill’s New Frock won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.

Tuffy’s misdemeanours in The Diary of a Killer Cat and the sequels The Return of the Killer Cat, The Killer Cat Strikes Back, The Killer Cat’s Birthday Bash and The Killer Cat’s Christmas have delighted mischievous children all over the world.

Anne Fine was named Children’s Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.

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Books by Anne Fine

The Diary of a Killer Cat

The Return of the Killer Cat

The Killer Cat Strikes Back

The Killer Cat’s Birthday Bash

The Killer Cat’s Christmas

Jennifer’s Diary

Loudmouth Louis

Notso Hotso

Only a Show

The Same Old Story Every Year

Stranger Danger?

The Worst Child I Ever Had

For older readers

A Pack of Liars

Crummy Mummy and Me

Flour Babies

Goggle-Eyes

Madame Doubtfire

Step by Wicked Step

The Tulip Touch

The Diary of a KILLER CAT

ANNE FINE

Illustrated by

Steve Cox

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First published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1994

Published in Puffin Books 1996

Published in Young Puffin Modern Classics 2004

This edition published 2011

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