This title features purrfect tales about fab furry felines from celebrated author Linda Newbery. When Simon's family moves home he is baffled by the elderly lady next-door, who has the rather strange habit of talking to her plants. Then one night, as he watches her calling into her garden, she is surrounded by shadowy, purring forms, and he realizes that only he can see this ghostly neighbour and her spooky feline friends. However, there is one special, smoky ghost-cat, Blue, who never comes when called. Simon is determined to reunite the smoke cat with his spectral neighbour, but every time he calls for Blue, the cat simply disappears. Will Simon uncover the secrets planted in his neighbour's garden in this haunting cat tale? "Curl up with Cat Tales", a charming collection of stand-alone stories, which are at turns magical, mysterious, comic and touching.

Author Biography

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... Author location: Northamptonshire