Varjak Paw: An award-winning modern children's classic
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'Dazzling' - New York Times
This cat must learn to fight!
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten, who lives 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 beloved modern classic. A celebration of friendship, loyalty and difference, Varjak Paw is an adventure like no other.
'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' - Sunday Times
Follow Varjak's further adventures in The Outlaw Varjak Paw.
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About the author
SF Said (Author)
SF Said is an award-winning and bestselling children's author. He was born in Lebanon but has lived in London nearly all his life.
His first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Children's Literature, was adapted for the stage, has sold over a million copies, and was included in BookTrust's 100 Best Children's Books of the Last 100 Years. The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. SF's third novel, Phoenix, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and nominated for both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. His latest book, Tyger, won Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, Children's Book of the Year (Older Fiction) at the Week Junior Book Awards, Foyles Children's Book of the Year, and was picked as a book of the year by the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Sun. It was also a New York Times bestseller.
SF Said is a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature. He has judged the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book Awards (now the Costa Book Awards) and the Amnesty CILIP Honour. He has given talks at the British Library, the British Film Institute, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and on BBC Radio 4. He has also written extensively about children's and young adult fiction for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
Dave McKean (Illustrator)
Dave McKean has illustrated and designed many ground-breaking books and graphic novels including Varjak Paw (SF Said), The Magic of Reality (Richard Dawkins), The Savage (David Almond) and The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman). He wrote and illustrated Pictures That Tick and the multi-award winning Cages. He has created hundreds of CD and comic covers and directed five short and three feature films.
