#Mog judith kerr series

But then Mog discovers that the kitten can see her, and something wonderful happens… Deep down they want Mog back and this little ball of fluff is nothing like her. Soon the Thomas family start to think that perhaps this is the wrong kind of pet for them. It runs away from noise, is scared of newspapers and hates to be picked up. The kitten is tiny, fearful, and nothing like Mog at all. She listens as the children share fond memories of the things they did together.Īnd then one day Mog watches as a new kitten arrives. She watches over the Thomas family as they cry sad tears and lay their pet to rest in their garden. Mog is old now and very tired so one day she decides that the best thing to do would be to sleep forever.

But did you know that in one of the last books written about Mog, she dies? Written to help children work through feelings of grief and loss, Goodbye Mog is a touching story about the death of a much-loved pet. The very first one, Mog the Forgetful Cat, was published in 1970 and since then there have been many stories about this feisty feline and his owners, the Thomas family.

#Mog judith kerr series

Her stories continue to entertain and delight generations of children.Most people are familiar with the series of books about Mog, written by the wonderful Judith Kerr. In May 2019, Judith died after a short illness. She celebrated both her 95 th birthday and the 50th anniversary of The Tiger Who Came to Tea in 2018, and in 2019 was named Illustrator of the Year at the British Book Awards.

Judith was awarded an OBE in 2012 for services to children’s literature and holocaust education, and was also awarded the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. 1 in the overall book charts and was the bestselling picture book of 2015, with Judith the oldest ever author to hold that No. Judith’s success continued with each book in December 2015 Mog’s Christmas Calamity was published in association with Sainsbury’s and was the subject of their Christmas advertising campaign, raising over 1 million pounds for Save the Children’s literacy appeal. Judith continued to write and illustrate many more bestsellers since that day – from her second book, introducing the world to the iconic Mog the Forgetful Cat, to her semi-autobiographical Out of the Hitler Time trilogy, telling the story of her family’s flight from Nazi Germany and subsequent lives as refugees in Europe, before their settlement in England. It has sold more than ten million copies, and is still a bestseller after fifty years. A success from its first publication in 1968, it was called “a dazzling first book” by Antonia Fraser in one of its first reviews, and has been beloved by both critics and children ever since. That picture book was The Tiger Who Came to Tea. “She was rather critical of my other stories but used to say, ‘Talk the tiger!’ So, when she and her brother were both at school and I had more time, I thought I would make it into a picture book.”

It was to Tacy that Judith first used to tell the story of a Tiger coming to tea.

They married in 1954 and had two children together Tacy and Matthew. She met her husband the celebrated screenwriter Nigel Kneale, by chance, while having lunch at the BBC canteen, where she later worked as a scriptwriter. They arrived in England in 1936, having spent the intervening years in Switzerland and France. Judith Kerr was born in Berlin, but left Germany with her family in 1933 to escape the Nazis.