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Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781598538298
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $34.00
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Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats

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25 Nov 2025
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THE PURR-FECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: Discover the literary legend's quirky and winsome cat poems, meditations, and drawings

Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats

THE PURR-FECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: Discover the literary legend's quirky and winsome cat poems, meditations, and drawings

Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats

"The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world." In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This irresistable book about cats gathers poems, meditations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that captured her imagination. Here are:

  • The Art of Bunditsu, Le Guin's hard-to-find “tabbist” meditation on the arranging of cats
  • 26 cat poems, many illustrated by Le Guin herself
  • The Historic First Issue! of Le Guin's one-of-a-kind cat comic book, Supermouse Comix! 
  • Cat Correspondence: letters between Le Guin’s cat and those of her daughter detailing the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying
  • Cat Tai Chi, as depicted in a charming series of drawings

A first-of-its-kind collection from a science fiction legend, this delightful purr-purri is a gift for cat lovers and Le Guin fans!
  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781598538298
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $34.00
Categories:

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin was born in Berkley, California, in 1929, daughter of the writer Theodora Krober and the anthropologist Alfred Krober. Her published work includes twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. Among her novels are the The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugo awards, Always Coming Home, winner of the 1985 Kafka Award, and Four Ways to Forgiveness. In 2009 she won her sixth Nebula award for Powers. She died in January 2018 aged 88. Penguin/Puffin published the first volume of the Earthsea books, A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The Earthsea books have been translated into many languages around the world and are global bestsellers.
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Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats

"Dogs are lovely creatures but they are humanised, they have joined our tribe. Cats remain the Other. I need otherness."

"Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship."