Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- ISBN-10
- 054724827X
- ISBN-13
- 9780547248271
- Series
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Category
- Cats
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
Description
T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical "Cats." Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning Axel Scheffler.
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- 2019-11-07
- 128 pages
- Paperback
- Faber & Faber Children's Books
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