Mog and the Baby

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Judith Kerr

Interest age: 2+
Reading age: 6+

Published by HarperCollins Children's Books, 2005

Classics
Picture books

About this book

Mog's peaceful day is shattered when a baby comes to visit. All Mog wants to do and sleep and play but there is no chance of that with a little baby around!

'Are you sure my baby will be all right with your cat?' Mrs Clutterbuck askes anxiously as she leaves her son with the Thomas family. 'Oh yes, Mog loves babies', Mrs Thomas assures her. However, Mog sits hunched up in a corner and glowers.

About the author

Judith Kerr was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family passed through Switzerland and France before arriving finally in England in 1936.

Judith went to eleven different schools, worked in the Red Cross during the war, and won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1945. Since then, she has worked as an artist, a BBC television scriptwriter and, for many decades now, as author and illustrator of children's books.

Judith has a daughter who is a designer and a son who is a novelist. She lives in London.

Judith won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.