Stone Cat

By Marion Perkins
June 2009
Book Guild
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781846243073
90 pages, Illustrated
$21.95 Cloth
Grades 5-6

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Lottie loves to sit among the wild flowers in her favourite part of the garden, daydreaming or talking to the statue of a cat that sits there. But when the cat answers her one day, she cannot believe that she is no longer daydreaming.

Mumbo reveals that he was turned to stone by evil wizard cat, Ludo, and he is desperate for Lottie to help turn him back into a real cat. But, unlike her brother Max, Lottie is not a brilliant brain-box, so how is she to find the solution to Mumbo’s problem on her own? As Lottie tries to keep her task a secret, her puzzled parents and suspicious brother begin to think her behaviour is more loopy than ever. Why is she terrorising a neighbour’s cat? And reading a dictionary?

That’s not Lottie’s style at all! But there are riddles to be solved and potions to be made, and Lottie and Max must put aside their differences and work together if Mumbo is to have any chance of coming back to life. A beautifully illustrated, delightful story of friendship, magic and discovering that you are smarter than you thought you were.

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