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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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