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Varjak Paw

Varjak Paw

Published: 13 Mar 2014

Paperback / softback, 256 pages

Recommended for age 7+ and 9+

By SF Said

Illustrated by Dave McKean

Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK

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Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten. He lives high up in an old house on a hill. He's never left home, but then his grandfather tells him about the Way - a secret martial art for cats.

'There are Seven Skills in the way of Jalal,' whispered the Elder Paw. 'We know only three of them. Their names are these.

Slow-Time. Moving Circles. Shadow-walking.' 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 much-loved story won the Smarties Prize Gold Award and has become a modern classic. 

Tagged Book Band Sapphire , cats and Pie Corbett Reading Spine Year 5

The Book Band Sapphire pack

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Book Band Sapphire easy purchase pack. You can purchase individual titles orview the full collection.

  • Varjak Paw
  • The Nowhere Emporium
  • A Boy Called Hope
  • The Outlaw Varjak Paw
  • I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers
  • The Good Bear
  • The Fastest Boy in the World
  • Fizzlebert Stump The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library)
  • Street Child
  • The Spy Who Loved School Dinners
  • The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair
  • The Secret of Nightingale Wood
  • Born to Run
  • A Dog Called Homeless
  • The Shark-Headed Bear-Thing
  • The Swivel-Eyed Ogre-Thing
  • Stormbreaker #1
  • Murder In Midwinter
  • The Imaginary
  • Atticus Claw Breaks the Law
  • Chicken Mission
  • Seal Island
  • Toad Rage
  • Loyal Creatures
  • The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  • The Dream Snatcher
  • Demolition Dad
  • Moondial
  • Frost Hollow Hall
  • Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
  • My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat
  • Cosmic
  • Thief!
  • Revolt Against the Romans

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A collection of 20 Teachers' Favourite books Year 4. These classic children's books have stood the test of time.  You can purchase books individually too.

  • Journey
  • Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet#1
  • The Boy At the Back of the Class
  • The Language of Cat
  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
  • Krindlekrax
  • Varjak Paw
  • Lob
  • Cliffhanger
  • Lizzie Dripping
  • Quick, Let's Get Out of Here
  • Street Child
  • Harry Miller's Run
  • Emil And The Detectives
  • The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
  • One Dog and His Boy
  • The Sheep-pig
  • I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

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    The Pirate Captain's Cat

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    5+ 7+

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