Cat and Dumpling: Home Sweet Home

The first in a charming new series by author Nicola Kent. Packed with beautiful full colour illustrations and a delightful story about best friends, Cat and Dumpling.

Cat and Dumpling are best friends, but they're very different. Cat is an impulsive dreamer who loves to knit, and Dumpling is a cautious planner who loves gardening. In these chapter books for early readers, the pair's far-fetched schemes and conflicting ideas wreak warm-hearted slapstick havoc, but always with a happy ending and a reassertion that despite their differences Cat and Dumpling will always be the very best of friends.

In Home Sweet Home, Cat and Dumpling meet for the very first time. They're both searching for the perfect home and have very different needs. Eventually they stumble across the perfect place-the only problem is, they both want the same flat! Can the pair survive as flatmates, or will their differences just be too much to overcome?

Look out for the next book in the series: Cat and Dumpling: The Talent Show.

About the author

Nicola Kent spent 10 years as a TV producer, making shows about subjects ranging from problem pets to priceless paintings. Then, after her children were born, she decided to follow her dream of becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. She went back to college to do an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Her debut book, The Strongest Mum (Macmillan), was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2019 and she was awarded the Independent Booksellers' Best New Illustrator Award in 2019. Nicola Kent spent 10 years as a TV producer, making shows about subjects ranging from problem pets to priceless paintings. Then, after her children were born, she decided to follow her dream of becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. She went back to college to do an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Her debut book, The Strongest Mum (Macmillan), was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2019 and she was awarded the Independent Booksellers' Best New Illustrator Award in 2019.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Kent, Kent Nicola
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 7
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780192788450
• ISBN: 978-0-19-278845-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > First reading age, pre-school age; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Chapter Books, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / General