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Richie Joe Jub
Jan 25, 2008, 09:44 AM
I'm trying to track down a children's picture book that I read as a child in the 80s. I can't remember the author, or specific title.. but it was something along the line of 'The Fat Cat' or 'The Hungry Cat'. I'm fairly sure it was published by penguin. The story followed the lines of a cat eating many people (including a lady with a parasol). At the end he was chopped open with an axe, and all the people emerged unharmed. The cat wound up with two bandages in the shape of a cross on his stomach. Has anyone any idea of more specific details?

mysteryperson123
Jan 28, 2008, 01:21 PM
I have never heard of the book but you could try Amazon.co.uk
I found the whole Brian Jaques book series which I could never find in shops there, and half of them were only 1p.

sd1025
Feb 5, 2008, 03:22 AM
I had that book when I was a kid, ill ask my mom tomorrow she always knows that stuff

sd1025
Feb 5, 2008, 05:11 PM
It is the fat cat its an old norwegian folk tale

Wondergirl
Feb 5, 2008, 05:33 PM
The Fat Cat - Jack Kent (c1971, based on the folk tale)

Amazon.com: The Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale: Books: Jack Kent (http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Cat-Danish-Folktale/dp/0590021745/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202257858&sr=1-3)

clafairey
Feb 10, 2008, 04:35 AM
Doesn't it make you wonder what was going through this authors head? It's a children's book about a cat eating people and being cut open with and axe?lol