The Mouse Butcher
Dick King-Smith ; illustrated by Margot Apple.
- London Puffin 1999
- 121 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Tom Plus used to live a modest life as the butcher's cat . . . but that was before all the humans left the island. Now Tom himself is the "mouse butcher", supplying the rich Bampton-Bush family with mice, fish, and pheasant, and enjoying the company of their beautiful Blue Persian daughter, Diana.