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  About the Author

  JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children’s Laureate from 2005-7. She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children’s Book of the Year and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.

  ALSO AVAILABLE BY JACQUELINE WILSON

  Published in Corgi Pups, for beginner readers:

  THE DINOSAUR’S PACKED LUNCH

  THE MONSTER STORY-TELLER

  Published in Young Corgi, for newly confident readers:

  LIZZIE ZIPMOUTH

  SLEEPOVERS

  Available from Doubleday/Corgi Yearling Books:

  BAD GIRLS

  THE BED AND BREAKFAST STAR

  BEST FRIENDS

  BIG DAY OUT

  BURIED ALIVE!

  CANDYFLOSS

  THE CAT MUMMY

  CLEAN BREAK

  CLIFFHANGER

  COOKIE

  THE DARE GAME

  DIAMOND

  THE DIAMOND GIRLS

  DOUBLE ACT

  DOUBLE ACT (PLAY EDITION)

  EMERALD STAR

  GLUBBSLYME

  HETTY FEATHER

  THE ILLUSTRATED MUM

  JACKY DAYDREAM

  LILY ALONE

  LITTLE DARLINGS

  THE LONGEST WHALE SONG

  THE LOTTIE PROJECT

  MIDNIGHT

  THE MUM-MINDER

  MY SECRET DIARY

  MY SISTER JODIE

  QUEENIE

  SAPPHIRE BATTERSEA

  SECRETS

  STARRING TRACY BEAKER

  THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER

  THE SUITCASE KID

  VICKY ANGEL

  THE WORRY WEBSITE

  THE WORST THING ABOUT

  MY SISTER

  Collections:

  JACQUELINE WILSON’S FUNNY GIRLS

  includes THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER and

  THE BED AND BREAKFAST STAR

  JACQUELINE WILSON’S DOUBLE-DECKER

  includes BAD GIRLS and DOUBLE ACT

  JACQUELINE WILSON’S SUPERSTARS

  includes THE SUITCASE KID and THE LOTTIE PROJECT

  JACQUELINE WILSON’S BISCUIT BARREL

  includes CLIFFHANGER and BURIED ALIVE!

  Available from Doubleday/Corgi Books, for older readers:

  DUSTBIN BABY

  GIRLS IN LOVE

  GIRLS UNDER PRESSURE

  GIRLS OUT LATE

  GIRLS IN TEARS

  KISS

  LOLA ROSE

  LOVE LESSONS

  Join the Jacqueline Wilson fan club at www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk

  About Battersea Dogs & Cats Home . . .

  Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is one of the oldest and most famous animal rescue centres in the world. Founded by a Victorian lady, Mrs Mary Tealby, in 1860, Battersea’s dream is of every dog and cat enjoying a loving, permanent and safe home. Until that happens, Battersea aims never to turn away an animal in need.

  Battersea rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes dogs and cats who are abandoned, neglected or unwanted, and looks after them while new homes are found. In 2012, 5,880 dogs and 2,760 cats were cared for at the Home’s three centres in London, Old Windsor in Berkshire and Brands Hatch in Kent. Over 1,000 volunteers and 300 staff make sure every animal who comes to Battersea’s gate gets the love, care and medical treatment they need.

  Discover more about Battersea’s history and work at battersea.org.uk

  Help us care for lost and frightened animals by donating to Battersea at battersea.org.uk/donate

  Find out how to rehome a dog or cat at battersea.org.uk/rehoming

  PAWS AND WHISKERS

  AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 978 1 448 19403 2

  Published in Great Britain by RHCP Digital,

  an imprint of Random House Children’s Publishers UK

  A Random House Group Company

  This ebook edition published 2014

  Foreword and introductions copyright © Jacqueline Wilson, 2014

  LEONIE’S PET CAT © Jacqueline Wilson, 2014

  Illustrations © Nick Sharratt, 2014

  Published under licence from Battersea Dogs Home Ltd. Royalties from the sale of this book go towards supporting the work of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (Registered charity no 206394). ® Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.

  Text and illustrations © individual authors; see Permissions here.

  The Permissions constitute an extension of this copyright notice.

  First Published in Great Britain by Doubleday, 2014

  The right of Jacqueline Wilson to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  Every effort has been made by the publishers to contact the copyright holders of the material published in this book; any omissions will be rectified at the earliest opportunity.

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