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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot

Hardcover | Pages: 56 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 22633 Users | 1435 Reviews

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Title	:	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Author	:	T.S. Eliot
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Illustrated Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 56 pages
Published	:	August 30th 1982 by Harcourt Brace & Company (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fiction. Animals. Cats. Humor. Childrens

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A CAT’S A CAT!

Before a Cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream;
And you might now and then supply
Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie,
Some potted grouse, or salmon paste -
He’s sure to have his personal taste.

A Cat’s entitled to expect
These evidences of respect.

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Original Title:	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
ISBN:	0151686564 (ISBN13: 9780151686568)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Macavity, Growltiger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer, Old Deuteronomy, Bustopher Jones, Jennyanydots
Setting:	United Kingdom

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Ratings: 4.08 From 22633 Users | 1435 Reviews

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[Just like a BUMbersticker:]Like this Review if you like cats but hate Cats (and can tell the dIFFérance).the ReVue:T.S. Elliot poetry about cats.Edward Gorey drawings about cats.Cats doing what cats do.A winning trilogy of characters, that.

Good solid cat poems. Cats are a great subject for literature, who can say why? My only problem with this book is that the very best of the poems is the very first one, which serves as an introduction to the poetical cats that follow; but none of the others are quite as clever as 'The Naming of Cats'. It's rather like having the delicious dessert before the main.

This book was on my Recommendations book shelf, I hope because I'm a huge fan of Edward Gorey, not a crazy cat lady. Unfortunately for me, my library didn't have the edition that Gorey illustrated. So, I read this one. Actually, the illustrations were the only thing I enjoyed about the book. I felt like Eliot was trying too hard to be clever with the names and none of them worked for me. Cap'n Wussenfuss, now that would've been a good name but he didn't come up with that name, I did. They have

I just didn't like it. I like cats and poems but these just weren't my thing.

I love, love, love this book. And of course I also love cats. I've read this book many times and was so amazed that someone took the poetry and made it into a Broadway play, which, of course, I also love. Amazing!

I read this years ago before I saw the musical "Cats". The book is charming and funny, and really captures the personalities of the cats. It's a wonderful little book!

It always raises a smile when I finally get to read something that has had so much influence and been referenced so many times and yet I had NOT a clue about it. True I knew it was from T S Eliot and that it was written for his younger family member but beyond that it was limited to the hype around the stage show and that was about it.However once you start digging in to it you see so many more connections. Now ironically the copy I stumbled across was connected to the stage show however for me