Format:
Book
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.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]
©1939, 1982
Description:
56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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."
Series:
A Harvest/HBJ book
Subjects:
Cats -- Poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Other Author:
Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, illustrator.
Notes:
Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.6 4 Quiz: 16457 Guided reading level: P.
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.
LCCN:
81020057
ISBN:
0151686564
9780151686568
015668568X
9780156685689
9780329567156
0329567152
0329039989
9780329039981
0151686564
9780151686568
015668568X
9780156685689
Other Number:
7977212
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
342138
Call Number:
811 Eliot
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2