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Varjak Paw
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  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552572293
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99

Varjak Paw

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Paperback
15 Mar 2014
EBook
1 Oct 2010
Audiobook
3 Mar 2011
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The best-selling story of Varjak Paw, a much-loved story with stunning illustrations from Dave McKean

This cat must learn to fight!
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten, who lives high up in an old house on a hill.
He's never left home, until he receives a mysterious visit from his grandfather who tells him about The Way - a secret martial art for cats.
Now Varjak must use the Way to survive in a city full of dangerous dogs, cat gangs and, strangest of all, the mysterious Vanishings.
With stunning illustrations from acclaimed graphic artist Dave McKean, this award-winning story has become a modern classic. A celebration of friendship, loyalty and difference, Varjak Paw is an adventure like no other.
Praise for Varjak Paw:
'Stylish, original and inventive, Varjak Paw is a modern children's classic' - Jacqueline Wilson
'A beguiling tale that sticks in the memory. The cat's whiskers' - The Sunday Times
Follow Varjak's further adventures in The Outlaw Varjak Paw.
  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552572293
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the authors

SF Said

SF Said's first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestlé Smarties Prize for Children's Literature. The sequel,The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the BBC Blue Peter Book Of The Year. Phoenix is his third book. He has written widely about literature, films and the arts for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph; and works regularly with CLPE, promoting reading and literacy in schools. For more information on SF and his books, please visit www.sfsaid.com
portrait photo of SF Said

Dave McKean

Dave McKean is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture.

After a trip to New York in 1986, during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987. This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries (again with Gaiman) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics. Beginning in 1989 he produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman as well as all its collected editions and many of its spin-offs; and the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, with writer Grant Morrison (1989). McKean has gone on to collaborate further with Neil Gaiman in both print and film.
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Praise for Varjak Paw

A beguiling tale that sticks in the memory. The cat's whiskers

The Sunday Times

Stylish, original and inventive, Varjak Paw is a modern children's classic

Dazzling

The New York Times

The book is compulsive reading; we are with Varjak every step of his way, willing him to succeed. Independent readers of 9 upwards will treasure it, not least for its illustrations, and some will camp out on the publisher's doorstep for the sequel

Ann Hay, The School Librarian

The cat magic mystique is brilliant

Richard Adams, Author of Watership Down

An engrossing and exciting story, handsomely produced with superbly atmospheric illustrations by an acclaimed mixed media artist.

Enid Stephenson, Carousel