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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2015 | Middle Grade
Gr 3–6—Shy newspaper reporter Mr. Tibble is in trouble with his editor because all of his articles are about cats. His editor demands that he cease writing about cats and instead write about local news. Luckily, soon after a real scoop lands in his lap when a young woman, frightened by a German shepherd, scampers up a tree in need of rescue. She is Miss Minou, a ginger cat who transformed into a human with catlike ways when she ate something unusual. Miss Minou understands feline language an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2016
In this Dutch novel first published in 1970, we encounter an almost entirely adult cast, human and feline. Mr. Tibble is a failed newspaperman, too shy to pursue the big story. Miss Minou is a cat who has been imprisoned in human form. Bilingual (cat and human) Minou gets scoops from her cat cronies and passes them on to Tibble, whose reporter reputation soars u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on April 1, 2016
In this Dutch novel from 1970, Mr. Tibble is a shy, failed newspaperman; Miss Minou, a cat imprisoned in human form, gets s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More