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Amanda Craig reviews the following titles, seeing signs that cats are newly ascendant over dogs in terms of children's fiction:
Lionboy (Lionboy: The Truth, Puffin), hot on the heels of S. F Said’s Smarties prize-prize-winning series about the fighting cat Varjak Paw (The Outlaw Varjak Paw, David Fickling), Kate Saunders’s Cat and the Stinkwater War (Macmillan), the hugely popular Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter (Fire and Ice, HarperCollins) and Cat Kin (Lulu Press), an excellent debut by Nick Green
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