Monster in the Mirror
By (Author) Jean Ure
Illustrated by Doffy Weir
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins Children's Books
3rd January 2001
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Blue Peter Book Award 2001
Paperback
64
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 5mm
71g
A woolly dog and a fluffy cat live together in perfect harmony -- until the arrival of a tiny kitten. Heartwarming story from a renowned author. Woffles is a dog. Very big and woolly. Stretch is a cat. Very smooth and slinky. But one day, this contented pair have a new addition to their family. A big ball of black fluff in the form of a very naughty kitten -- Muffy -- who holds up her claws with her nails sticking out so they look like pins on a pin cushion. And Muffy decides to play tricks on Woffles and mayhem ensues. It's up to Stretch to restore harmony to the household . He does so by introducing Muffy to a monster -- her own reflection in a long mirror in the upstairs bedroom. Muffy is tamed. Meanwhile Woffles, thinking there is a monster in the upstairs bedroom refuses to go anywhere near it, until persuaded to by Stretch to be brave. What confronts Woffles is a big and woolly dog. So Muffy the kitten seeks protection from the monster in the mirror from Woffles; And Woffles knows that he will be protected by the big woolly dog in the mirror!
Jean Ure has written over sixty books for children and young people. She is a vegan and committed to animal rights hence her passion for writing about animals. She lives with her husband Leonard and 7 stray dogs and cats in a 300-year-old cottage in Croydon.