sane, JG BoeGae , \ Beas: woes aw | asred: ce aoOriginal Story in English ‘The Cat in the Ghat’ by Ambika Rao Illustrated by Ruchi Shah ‘Ghattadalli, Bekkina Shodhadalli’ — Kannada translation by Meera Tushar Punarvasu © Pratham Books, 2014 Photographs by Sandesh Kadur © Sandesh Kadur, 2014 Second Kannada Edition: 2014 ISBN: 978-8 1-8479-486-| Typesetting and layout by: Pratham Books, Bengaluru Printed by: Rave India, New Delhi Published by: Pratham Books www.prathambooks.org Registered office: PRATHAM BOOKS # 621, 2nd Floor, Sth Main, OMBR Layout Banaswadi, Bengaluru 560 043 T:+91 80 42052574 / 41159009 Regional Offic New Delhi #91 11 41042483 The development of this book has been supported by Promoting innovative publishing in education i ‘A SIR RATAN TATA TRUST INITIATIVE @ S Some rights reserved.The story text and the illustrations are CC-BY 4.0 licensed which means you can download this book, remix illustrations and ‘even make a new story - all for free! 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