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

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Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. She grew up by the sea, on the south coast of England, spending most of her childhood reading, writing, drawing and running wild. 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.

First illustrated edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author as Old Possum on the front free endpaper, "to the Tandy Fambley from O. Actually, what I want is a collection of light verse by lots of different people: Lin Manuel Miranda and Kate Bush and Childish Gambino and Adele (I can think of a number of lyricists, but I am not up at all on actual poets as such). 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.One really likes the sequence of vignettes that accompany the muddle that the Tugger poses when he disrupts a housewife's sewing chores.

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. Now that my copy is starting to fall apart, I'm considering breaking it up and just keeping the illustrations. Long before Andrew Lloyd Webber's fabled musical, I read Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to my sons and to one of them just after he was born, though I suspect the readings have had no lasting impact on children so very young. I also like his sequence of pictures that play like a succession of scenes when the poems can't provide any words. 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.It is often thought of as a book for children and when you see a child getting tucked into bed or curling up on your knee and begging for a "cat poem" you'll see why children love it so much. This little book, consists of 15 poems with the last one, "Cat Morgan Introduces Himself", added in 1952. 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).