Purrfect tales about fab furry felines from celebrated author Linda Newbery.Daisy is helping her dad prepare for the Open Day on his allotment. Unfortunately the long, hot summer means the vegetables look tired and wilted. When a mysterious stray cat arrives at the allotments, Honeysuckle, one of the gardeners, declares it a Rain Cat from Thailand. Daisy has always wanted a pet, and is happy to help Honeysuckle pamper the cat with presents and make up poems to help the rain come. Naturally, the other gardeners are sceptical...but then it starts to rain...and will not stop!"Curl up with Cats Tales", is a charming collection of stand-alone stories, at turns magical, mysterious, comic and touching.

Author Biography

Linda wrote her first novel during the summer holidays from her job as a secondary school teacher. Now a critically acclaimed full-time author, Linda has written over twenty novels, been shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal, and is the winner of a Silver Medal Nestle Children's Book Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award. Linda does much of her work in her writing hut in her garden but is often distracted by her own furry feline friends...