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Author Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, author.

Title Old Possum's book of practical cats / by T.S. Eliot ; drawings by Edward Gorey.

Publication Info. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]
©1939, 1982

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 812.912 Eliot Old 1982    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Edition First edition.
Description 56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Children
Series A Harvest/HBJ book
Harvest/HBJ book.
Contents Naming of cats -- Old Gumbie cat -- Growltiger's last stand -- Rum Tum Tugger -- Song of the Jellicles -- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer -- Old Deuteronomy -- Pekes and the pollicles -- Mr. Mistoffelees -- Macavity: Mystery cat -- Gus: Theatre cat -- Bustopher Jones: Cat about town -- Skimbleshanks: Railway cat -- Ad-dressing of cats -- Cat Morgan introduces himself.
Summary These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems; later inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary musical "Cats".
Study Program Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.6 4 Quiz: 16457 Guided reading level: P.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Cats -- Poetry.
Cats.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Humorous poetry.
Poetry.
Added Author Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, illustrator.
Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
ISBN 0151686564
9780151686568
015668568X (paperback)
9780156685689 (paperback)
9780329567156
0329567152
0329039989
9780329039981