With her help, he starts to uncover some suspicious goings-on around town. Enter Miss Minou, a mysterious young woman who appears in Tibble’s apartment one evening, acting suspiciously cat-like. But if Tibble wants to keep his job, he’ll have to figure something out. As a reporter in his small town, Tibble is supposed to write about local news and happenings, but he finds that he’s much more interested in reporting on the exploits of the neighborhood cats – talking to people is too frightening. This devotion to his feline friends is causing Mr. Tibble’s boss points out at the beginning of the middle-grade novel, “Apparently you only ever associate with cats.” Been there, Mr. Tibble, would fit in quite well with today’s cat video-obsessed culture. Schmidt’s The Cat Who Came In Off the Roof was originally published in 1970, but its publishers are smart to reissue the title now – the character at the story’s core, Mr.
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