The Cat That Barked Budge Wilson Illustrated by Terry Roscoe Children's Chapter Book 48 pages $7.95 6 x 9 paperback ISBN-10 1-895900-17-4 ISBN-13 978-1-895900-17-0 Stephanie Henderson feels pretty crummy about having to say goodbye to everybody she knows to move from Peterborough to Halifax. To help her adjust, her parents give her a cat. She thinks her new cat is perfect - but won't everyone think she's pretty weird for having a cat that barks? Terry Roscoe's line drawings are the perfect foil to this story about fitting in, and standing out. An "Our Choice" selection of the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Order this book: [from Pottersfield Press] [from Amazon] [from Chapters]

The author of over two dozen books of fiction, including many for children, Budge Wilson has won the City of Dartmouth Book Award, Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, Marianna Dempster Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award, and the CBC Literary Competition, as well as several Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" awards. She began writing later in life, after working as a commercial artist and photographer, teacher and fitness instructor. Since publishing her first book in 1984, her books have appeared in Canada, the United States, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Australia.

Terry Roscoe has also illustrated Budge Wilson's The Imperfect Perfect Christmas, Harold and Harold and Cassandra's Driftwood.

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