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Children’s book of the week: The Tobermory Cat

Tobermory the tomcat is making fur fly, says Amanda Craig

The Tobermory Cat (5+) by Debi Gliori,
Birlinn, £9.99; The Times Bookshop, £9.49

Picture books rarely make the news, but Debi Gliori’s book about a feral ginger tomcat on the Isle of Mull has been making fur fly. Her publisher saw a real cat being photographed by tourists, and invited Gliori to write a story about him. Unfortunately, a local artist, Angus Stewart, who had made a Facebook page about this cat, took umbrage at what he saw as “theft”. Gliori was viciously attacked on the internet by trolls. This week, the scandal hit the national press.

What a shame,

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