The Killer Cat is back forChristmas! A much-loved classicby Anne Fine. So go on, ask me.'Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was yourChristmas so horrible?' Well. Icouldn't climb the tree. I couldn't touch the danglydecorations. And Ellie made mepart of her sing-along Christmasperformance. Horrible, horrible,horrible! But I showed them. Iwas Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. How was I supposedto know things would get so . . .messy? Anne Fine has writtennumerous highly acclaimed andprize-winning books forchildren and adults. The Tulip Touch won the WhitbreadChildren's Book of the YearAward; Goggle-Eyes won theGuardian Children's FictionAward and the Carnegie Medal;Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the WhitbreadChildren's Book of the Year; andBill's New Frock won a SmartiesPrize. Anne Fine was namedChildren's Laureate in 2001 andwas awarded an OBE in 2003.