I Don't Want a Cool Cat

by Emma Dodd

A little girl dreams of having her own cat, but she has very strong ideas about the type of cat she definitely doesn't want.

She doesn't hanker after a pompously cool cat or a huffy, fluffy cat or a macho cat that gets into fights at night. She would avoid a giant cat, a greedy cat or a yowly, prowly cat.

All she really wants is her very own small, cuddly cat who purrs when she gets home.

A simple message about how something precious does not have to be rare, expensive, enormous or unique. As these wonderfully comic illustrations show, the most ordinary little cat is priceless to one small girl.

Publisher: Orchard Books

Emma Dodd

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Booktrust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.

Emma Dodd