| ISBN |
9780571359837 (paperback) |
| Name |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 author. |
| Title |
Old Possum's book of practical cats / T.S. Eliot ; illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown. |
| Published |
London : Faber & Faber, 2019. |
| ©1939 |
| Description |
118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
First published in 1939. |
| Film tie-in. |
| Contents |
The naming of cats -- The old gumbie cat -- Growltiger's last stand -- The Rum Tum Tugger -- The song of the Jellicles -- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer -- Old Deuteronomy -- The pekes and the pollicles -- Mr. Mistoffelees -- Macavity: Mystery cat -- Gus: Theatre cat -- Bustopher Jones: Cat about town -- Skimbleshanks: The railway cat -- The ad-dressing of cats -- Rhapsody on a windy night. |
| Summary |
In 1925 T. S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history and is now a film starring Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward and James Corden. |
| Target audience note |
9-12 years. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 3-4. |
| Subjects |
Cats -- Juvenile poetry |
| Children's poetry, English |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 3-4 |
| Other Names |
Ashdown, Rebecca illustrator. |
| Series |
Faber classics |
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