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The Taming of the Cat
Adventure, Animals, New BooksFrom twice-Kate Greenaway WINNER comes an exquisite story within a story, featuring a mouse who is forced to tell stories to save his life, a cat who plans to eat said mouse as soon as the story is finished, and our protagonist’s protagonist, a princess in trouble. Gorgonzola watched Brie with her tail twitching . .
. then she pounced. Brie the mouse is caught between the claws of Gorgonzola the cat.
Desperate to survive, Brie starts telling Gorgonzola a story . . .
It’s a showstopping tale – about a runaway princess, a cat that can grow to the size of a panther, an enchanted feast, a vanishing cavern and a quest to find a magical herb . . .
But Gorgonzola is getting hungry . . .
If Brie wants his life to be spared, this must be the best story he has ever told. A dazzling story within a story that you won’t be able to put down and accompanied with stunning interior art..
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Nika –
Brie the mouse lives in a cheese shop with other mice, but they don’t like him – he’s not like them, he njoys telling stories and daydreaming, and prefers bread to cheese. When he ventures out of his nest one night, he is caught by Gorgonzola the shop cat, and in order to distract the cat from eating him, Brie starts telling a story, a proper fairy tale with magic, villains and dragons. The story is so good, that eventually Gorgonzola waits every day for Brie, not to eat him, but to hear the next part of the tale. Throughout the book we are actually reading two stories – the made-up fairy tale that Brie is telling, and the story of the budding friendship between the cat and the mouse. This is a stunningly illlustarted novel by Helen Cooper, most suitable for ages 6 – 10, and is a proper visual and magical delight for any reader.