The cat mummy

I sometimes talk about my mum to Mabel, because Mabel doesn't ever get upset. Verity adores her cat, Mabel, and is desperately sad when she dies. Remembering her recent school lessons about the Ancient Egyptians, Verity decides to mummify Mabel and keep her hidden. Verity's dad and grandparents can't bear to talk about death, having lost Verity's mum in childbirth, but when they eventually discover what Verity has done, the whole family learns that it's time to talk. A touching and sensitively-told story from best-selling Jacqueline Wilson now with a new introduction by the author! 'Extraordinarily good at getting inside what worries children . . . a wonderful read and Nick Sharratt's drawings are wittily tender' Independent