Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: with illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown: 1 (Faber Children's Classics)

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Inside, are 64 thick creamy coloured pages, split over sections, as per the CONTENTS page at the front (1st image below refers). The fun thing is that I have cats myself - and I am starting to wonder if there is little but of their in this book (or this book in them).

Scheffler has produced a marvellous edition, fit to stand alongside the previous illustrated editions of the whole book, and it even compares favourably to the darker-hued Erol LeCain illustrations for five of the poems. I would have liked it if individual lines had had their own illustrations and it would have been good for the text to wrap itself around the pictures.A algunos les causó extrañeza que Eliot, censurado por algunos poemas, escribiese algo para niños, pero , claro, un gato tiene más de un nombre. C., is named after the fictional establishment mentioned in the poem "Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town". I’m not sure the CGI is entirely convincing, as these cat-human hybrids seem much more of the latter than the former (the meowing is definitely unconvincing; Dame Judi Dench throwing a ham bone made me guffaw out loud). We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

He was also a very successful set and costume designer, earning a Tony Award for his Broadway production of Edward Gorey's Dracula. Featuring Macavity, the Mystery Cat; Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer and all the gang, this is a must for every child's bookshelf and is a great companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage show. I tend to like this better than the Bentley and Gorey editions, and this edition is really well worth it. The book of light verse was the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, which was first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opened on Broadway the following year.

The Old Man has many cats and refers to the poem "The Naming of Cats", explaining that each cat has three names: one common, one fancy and one that only the cat knows. But the paper is crappy and discolored, and often the illustrations are back-to-back, so I'd probably get bleed through too.

Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. 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’. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. After a Masters at Central Saint Martin's, she worked for the BBC until her lifelong passion for children's books led her to start creating them. Spine slightly toned, cloth a touch soiled, mild foxing throughout, text block strained in a couple of places but firm.The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat.

De hecho tiene tres: el que le dan y todos conocen, después uno peculiar que le da orgullo, y luego está aquel, el secreto, que solamente éste conoce.Yet Scheffler's drawings are nuanced so that he finds room to make Growltiger sinister, except when he is courting Griddlebone. Throughout the 1930s, the family would be the first audience on which Eliot tested out the cat poems, both in letters and on visits to the family's Hampshire cottage. She grew up by the sea, on the south coast of England, spending most of her childhood reading, writing, drawing and running wild. It is a shame if grown-up readers aren't taken by the illustrations, but grown-ups can appreciate picture book treatments of old classics as well as the next child.