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When Ellie tells Tuffy the family
is leaving for the week, Tuffy
couldn't be more thrilled. A
whole blissful week of rolling
around in the flower bed and
lounging on top of the TV? Tuffy can't wait! But the cat sitter the
family procures doesn't
understand Tuffy's refined feline
palate, and Little Miss Soppy
next door seems intent on
dressing Tuffy in a nightie and calling him Janet. To get out of
such a terrible mess, Tuffy is
going to have to rely on his
comical killer instincts.
'Okay, okay. So stick my head in
a holly bush.'
Tuffy knows what he likes. And
he doesn't like the 'art' that
Ellie's mum brings home from
her new classes. So what's a cat to do?
A few scratches here just
happen to shred a painting. A
nudge there somehow slips a
vase off a shelf. Dad hope a
horribly lumpy clay pot will be next, but Tuffy's having none of
it. The killer cat will go his own
sweet way!
The Killer Cat is back for
Christmas! A much-loved classic
by Anne Fine. So go on, ask me.
'Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was your
Christmas so horrible?' Well. I
couldn't climb the tree. I couldn't touch the dangly
decorations. And Ellie made me
part of her sing-along Christmas
performance. Horrible, horrible,
horrible! But I showed them. I
was Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. How was I supposed
to know things would get so . . .
messy? Anne Fine 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; and
Bill's New Frock won a Smarties
Prize. Anne Fine was named
Children's Laureate in 2001 and
was awarded an OBE in 2003.
Tuffy doesn't feel wanted at home any more. His owners just don't appreciate him. So what if he broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad's clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten's special kitten-food? All accidents! But they're making such a fuss!