Why Do Cats Meow? Curious Questions About Your Favourite Pet by Dr. Nick Crumpton
Why Do Cats Meow? Curious Questions About Your Favourite Pet by Dr. Nick Crumpton
Why Do Cats Meow? Curious Questions About Your Favourite Pet by Dr. Nick Crumpton
Why Do Cats Meow? Curious Questions About Your Favourite Pet by Dr. Nick Crumpton

Why Do Cats Meow? Curious Questions About Your Favourite Pet by Dr. Nick Crumpton

Illustrated by Lily Snowden-Fine

A humorous book that poses and answers twenty questions about our feline friends and what makes them so unique

Why Do Cats Meow? is the second book in the series of natural history books for children that answer curious questions about favourite and familiar pets. The book highlights the qualities of different types of cats, and answers some of the more curious questions children have about cats, including: why do cats like scratching things? Why do cats like bringing us dead things? and Why do cats have wet noses?

Through the book, children will come to understand what’s so unique about a cat’s body and its behaviour and why they deserve to be well cared for. The book also profiles famous cats from history and popular culture, including the cat-headed Egyptian goddess Bastet and Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, who lives and works at 10 Downing Street in London. By incorporating zoological information about the feline species with stories from history, art, religion and popular culture, Why Do Cats Meow? celebrates why cats have been such dear pets to us for centuries.

Condition: Very Good Condition
Format: Hardcover
Age: 5+

Dr. Nick Crumpton is a zoologist at University College London. Nick grew up in the UK on a diet of David Attenborough documentaries and hand-me-down Sega games before reading ecology at Leeds University. He moved to beautiful Bristol to research the ancient mammals that lived during the time of the dinosaurs, before he wrote a PhD in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

He worked at the BBC Natural History Unit and then the Natural History Museum, London before science-ing at the Zoological Society London (on venomous mammals and Indonesian biodiversity) and University College London, where he occasionally teaches. As well as writing for children, he works as a zoological consultant and organises scientific meetings at the Royal Society.

His favourite animals are lowland streaked tenrecs, and he has an aversion to cobras (after one very nearly bit him on his bottom when he wasn't paying attention).


Lily Snowden-Fine is an illustrator and painter based in Vancouver whose clients include The New York Times, among others. She was the voice of the original Peppa Pig when it first aired in 2004.

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