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Eliot, T. S.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

64 pp. | Harcourt | October, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-24827-1 $16.00
New ed. (1939)
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Eliot's playful cycle--comparing feline independence, individuality, idiosyncrasies, and misdemeanors to human varieties in fifteen witty, rhythmic, artfully phrased poems--is appealingly illustrated. Scheffler extends the animal antics but never upstages the text; his creatures--small, lithe, mischievous--deploy themselves with catlike verve. Wide pages nicely accommodate the verse plus vignettes of the cats and their bemused humans, supplemented by an occasional full-page scene.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010

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