Mog cat swimming11/20/2023 ![]() From Judith Kerr, the bestselling author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Kerr’s bestselling title is The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which has sold 1.2m copies in the UK, according to the Bookseller. Mog the Forgetful Cat was first published in 1970 and has never been out of print The classic picture book story of a very forgetful cat, her family, and a very exciting adventure is the perfect gift for families, boys, girls, and anyone who has ever known or loved a cat. The story was inspired by one told to Kerr by her father Alfred Kerr, known to readers from her classic novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. In September, she published her first illustrated novel in 37 years, Mister Cleghorn’s Seal. The author celebrated her 90th birthday in 2013. But it wasn’t so much that I wanted to kill her off, as that I wanted to say something about dying and being remembered.” I wished sometimes I’d made her a plain-coloured cat. I’ve done enough Mog books – you know, drawing all those stripes became very tedious. Kerr told the Guardian at the time: “I didn’t think of it so much in terms of ‘That’s an end to Mog’, though I think it is. ![]() ![]() The death of the accident-prone feline even prompted an obituary in the Guardian. In 2002, Kerr published Goodbye Mog, breaking hearts around the world by killing off the much-loved moggy, the star of a series of picture books charting her misadventures, from Mog the Forgetful Cat to Mog in the Dark. Most significantly, each book purchased is raising funds to help more children in the UK delight in the pleasure that reading can bring. It is a testament to the magic of Judith Kerr’s storytelling and the enchanting film that has been produced. “It’s fantastic to see Mog’s Christmas Calamity … as the biggest selling book in the UK. “Mog mania has gripped the nation,” said HarperCollins Children’s Books publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh. It is also, the Bookseller reported, the first time a picture book that was not published for World Book Day achieved this result. According to the Bookseller, this is the first overall No 1 spot for Kerr, who becomes, at 92, the oldest author to have topped the charts in the UK (Harper Lee, points out Kerr’s publisher, was a mere 89 when Go Set a Watchman hit the top spot this summer). The book has now topped the UK’s official book charts, selling 74,453 copies last week, according to Nielsen BookScan, 17,000 more than the second-placed Jeff Kinney’s new Wimpy Kid title. It was written after Sainsbury’s approached Kerr and her publisher about the concept, and is being sold exclusively in the supermarket chain, which aired a full-length television advert based on the story and featuring Mog – and a cameo from Kerr herself – for the first time last Thursday. Kerr’s new picture book, Mog’s Christmas Calamity, sees the beloved tabby cat cause chaos in the Thomas household on Christmas morning, inadvertently summoning the fire brigade to her smoke-filled home before eventually, as is traditional, being rewarded with an egg.
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