To Be A Cat

About the Book

Life couldn’t get any worse for twelve-year-old Barney Willow.

He’s weedy, with sticky-out ears. Evil bully Gavin Needle and horrible headteacher-from-hell Miss Whipmire both seem determined to make his existence a complete and utter misery. Mum doesn’t seem to care, not that she’s around very often. Worst of all, Dad has been missing for almost a year – and there’s no sign of him ever coming home.

Barney just wants to escape. To find another life, where his problems would simply disappear … To be a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy, pampered, snoozing-by-the-fire cat. Things would be so much easier – right?

Barney’s about to discover just how wrong he is …

An imaginative, exciting and darkly funny story from the winner of the Nestle Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award.