We left food for Pippa, with a note that if anyone caught her in the house, to lock the catflap and phone us, and we put posters on a few lampposts. My niece was unimpressed by the six dinners and would interject "and seven, and seven" which struck me since she can't count yet. My niece was also much taken with the spoonful of medicine - perhaps this gave her flashbacks to her own earlier addiction to Calpol infant paracetamol?

He is the ultimate shapeshifter, transcending sex, but coincidentally always garnering a name which begins with the letter ‘s’. I loved this book as a child, seeing the cheekiness of Sid going from house to house and found it very funny. Silo mentality is a reluctance to share information with employees of different divisions in the same company, or in this case, street. I recommend Six-Dinner Sid to cat lovers and their kids, curious about where kitty goes when he wanders off.A clever kitty manages to convince six different humans - all of them neighbors on Aristotle Street - that he is their cat, thereby obtaining six comfortable beds, six different forms of petting (all in pleasurable spots), and best of all - six dinners. As well as writing her own books, she has illustrated several classics such as Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden. There is a nice little twist at the end has the right blend of cheekiness and morality to appeal to us all.

One black cat tricking some neighbours is no biggie, but what if a true villain entered their midst? The plot of the cat who goes from house to house pretending to be anyone’s will be familiar to anyone who’s ever known a cat. Moore wrote a sequel involving Sid, Six Dinner Sid: A Highland Adventure, which was published in 2010. She has also illustrated several classics, such as The Wind in the Willows (2000) by Kenneth Grahame, The Secret Garden (2013) by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and The Canterville Ghost (1997) by Oscar Wilde.A friend made me a gift of this book when she learned how much I loved a YouTube reading of this story. Moore shows Sid entering a house, but then speeds up the pacing by showing four scenes on a single page. This time however, Six-Dinner Sid's humans are very much aware of his predilection for roaming, and take it in stride. The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day – at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid’s heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians.