This book is about a reporter called Tibble who only ever writes about cats and is about to be fired from his paper for that reason. He finds a woman who was a cat and has recently turned into a person. Her name is Miss Minou. This might sound strange to you, but I find it very interesting. It's not like a magical fairytale book but feels like it is in real life, even though it's strange. She comes in off the roof all wet after being chased up a tree by a dog. And eventually Tibble says she can stay for a bit.
He doesn't know she was a cat first of all, but begins to notice her cattish traits, such as purring when she is happy, rubbing against the fishmonger and hissing and scratching people she doesn't like. She can also talk to cats and that's when she starts being really useful to Tibble as she sets up the Cat News Agency and gets him brilliant stories.
The horrible character of Mr Ellmore is up to something and Tibble is determined to find out what. Miss Minou helps him. Will they find out and save the town? Read the book and find out.
One more thing I found out that even though this book has just been published here it is actually a really famous book written in Dutch and people in Europe know it really well. It's so weird that it's just come to us, and then I found out the author is DEAD! I was upset about that. I'm 9 and I think book is great for 7 and up.
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