Kaz Cooke is best known as a successful columnist, author and cartoonist. Her most recent book is Women’s Stuff.
Other Kaz Cooke books include Girl Stuff, Kidwrangling: Caring for Kids aged 0-5, The Baby Book: A Fun Scrapbook for the First 5 Years, the bestselling Up The Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty, Get a Grip, Get Another Grip, and Living With Crazy Buttocks, a collection of newspaper columns. Kaz has also authored the ‘Little Book’ series of self-help send-ups: from the Little Book of Stress (a send up of The Little Book of Calm), through The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shui and the Little Book of Diet and Exercise.
Kaz also co-authored Women’s Trouble with Ruth Trickey. It’s a sensible women’s health book on everything from the first period to menopause. Kaz’s two books for children are The Terrible Underpants and Wanda-Linda Goes Berserk. Kaz’s books have been translated into Latvian (where her name appears as Keza Kuka), Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Czech, French, German and many other lanuguages, including North American.
Kaz’s regular newspaper columns have included: The Canberra Times, The Age, The Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Who Magazine and The Australian. Kaz has also provided regular cartoons for The Australian Women’s Weekly. Humorous articles have been contributed to many magazines. Kaz’s most recent TV columns for the Canberra Times and commentary for The Monthly can be read on www.kazcooke.com
Kaz also wrote and directed Gorgeous, an animated short that won the 1994 AFI award for best short animated film.
