Bruce Dawe

Bruce Dawe (Author)

About

Bruce Dawe, widely recognised as Australia's most popular poet, is a winner of numerous awards including the Patrick White Literary Award (1980), the Christopher Brennan Award (1984) and the National Book Council Best Published Book in Australia for Sometime Gladness. Bruce has been awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for his contribution to Australian literature and in 2000 received an Art Council Emeritus Writers Award.

Bruce was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, in 1930 and after leaving school worked in various occupations (labourer, farmhand, clerk, sawmill-hand, gardener, and postman) before joining the RAAF in 1959. He has published twelve books of poetry, a book of short stories and a book of essays. His previous titles in the Aussie Bites range are The Chewing-Gum Kid and Luke and Lulu, and he has also written three Aussie Nibbles.

No Cat & That's That: Aussie Nibbles

By Bruce Dawe & Andrew McLean

Sam wants a cat, but her family loves dogs. Then one night, through the rain pelting down on her tin roof, she hears a sharp mewing sound. Sam takes in the bedraggled kitten, but in the morning she finds it missing.

Published: 02/09/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143300090

RRP: $12.95