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''Paws and Whiskers'' is a 2014 fundraising anthology for the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, featuring some of the best children's stories about cats and dogs of all time, selected by multi-award-winning and best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson, with illustrations by Nick Sharratt. Published 13 February 2014 by Doubleday Children's, the book includes a new story by Wilson, ''Leonie's Pet Cat'', as well as extracts from such classics as The Hundred and One Dalmatians, by Dodie Smith, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.〔(Paws and Whiskers preview: Table of Contents )〕 Also called ''Battersea Cats and Dogs Anthology'' before publication,〔(Battersea Cats and Dogs Anthology )〕 the book is under licence from "Battersea Dogs' Home Ltd.", with royalties from book sales going to support the registered charity.〔(Paws and Whiskers preview: Copyright page )〕 Although dogs appear before cats in the name of this animal welfare organisation, the anthology has the section with excerpts from ''Cat Stories'' first, and ''Dog Stories'' last, with the special ''Pets' Corner'' section in the middle, featuring new stories by notable children's authors about their pets.〔 The cover art includes illustrations of pets. "That's Shanti on the cover, in the bottom right hand corner", said Francesca Simon, who wrote the story about her Tibetan Spaniel. ==Extracts from the book== Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan ''Ice Lolly'' by Jean Ure ''The Theatre Cat'' by Noel Streatfeild Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams ''The Cat that Walked by Himself'' by Rudyard Kipling ''Orlando's Invisible Pyjamas'' by Kathleen Hale ''Soffrona and Her Cat Muff'' by Mary Martha Sherwood Varjak Paw by S. F. Said ''The Diary of a Killer Cat'' by Anne Fine The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford Osbert by Noel Streatfeild ''A Dog So Small'' by Philippa Pearce The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Love That Dog by Sharon Creech The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith Just William by Richmal Crompton Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ''Shadow, the Sheep-Dog'' by Enid Blyton The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo ''The Werepuppy'' by Jacqueline Wilson 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paws and Whiskers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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