Publisher's synopsis
Rose lived with her dog, John Brown. ‘Just the two of us,’ said Rose, until the mysterious midnight cat came along, and things began to change. An award-winning classic tale.
Rose lived with her dog, John Brown. ‘Just the two of us,’ said Rose, until the mysterious midnight cat came along, and things began to change. An award-winning classic tale.
Jenny Wagner lives with her husband, their dog and three lazy cats in a small Queensland farmhouse that looks like a witch’s cottage. The garden is full of possums, lizards, goannas, frogs, scrub turkeys and other birds. Sometimes a couple of wallabies come to visit, too.
As well as her best-selling novels featuring the nimbin, Jenny Wagner has also written several very successful children’s picture books.
The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat both won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Ward (Picture Books) and are widely considered to be classics.
Ron Brooks has illustrated many children’s books, including those considered to be classics of Australian picture book publishing: John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat (first published by Viking in 1986), and The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek (Viking 1989). Both these picture books have earned world-wide recognition and critical praise. Old Pig (published by Allen and Unwin) was named Best Book of the Year 1997 by the New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Recently Ron illustrated two beautiful companion picture books, Henry’s Bed and Henry’s Bath, written by his wife Margaret Perversi.
Author Jenny Wagner
Illustrator Ron Brooks
Publisher Penguin Random House Australia
Date of Publication 1980
ISBN 9780140503067
Category Children's Books, Picture Books
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