The Cat Who Came in Off the Roof (12 page)
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Authors: Annie M.G. Schmidt
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Original text © 1970 by the Estate of Annie M.G. Schmidt, Amsterdam, Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij B.V.
English translation © David Colmer, 2014
The Cat Who Came in off the Roof
first published in Dutch as
Minoes
in 1970
This translation first published by Pushkin Children’s Books in 2014
This ebook edition published in 2014
This book was published with the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
ISBN 978 1 782690 60 3
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