Blitzcat is a book by Robert Westall, and winner of the Smarties Book Prize.
Blitzcat involves a very special cat who leads the way to safety out of the bombed, fire stricken city of Coventry. People believed she brought luck, and she changed lives wherever she went.
This book also shows the phenomenon of 'psi trailing' first encountered by Professor J.B. Rhine of Duke University.
Westall was born in Tyneside in 1929, where he grew up in the Second World War. At Durham University he studied Fine Arts, and at Slade in London he studied Sculpture. He later started teaching at art schools across the North of England. Westall was also a branch-director of the Samaritans, an antique dealer as well as a journalist. After 1985 he retired and started writing many fiction stories, until his death in 1993. His first novel for children was Machine Gunners, published by Macmillan in 1975, and for that he won a Carnegie Medal. He also won it for his later book Scarecrows in 1982, he was the first author to win the medal twice. He also got a Smarties Prize for Blitzcat in 1989, and in 1991 got a Guardian Award for his novel The Kingdom by the Sea.