When Marmaduke, a stripy marmalade cat, discovers a picture of a stripy orange tiger, he recognises their similarities and decides they MUST be related. Marmalade manages to talk himself and his neighbourhood cat friends into visiting the local safari park. But will his great uncle be just as he imagined...?

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2009 by Hachette Children's Group .

James Riordan has written many books for children, including many translations of Russian tales. His Peter and the Wolf is published in cloth and paperback by Oxford. Alex Ayliffe is a bestselling author and illustrator. Her characteristic paper collage illustrations won her the Sainsbury's Best Book for Babies award.