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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot: If you saw and enjoyed the wonderful musical, Cats, you will love this book, which was first published in 1939. We recently joined our granddaughter at a performance of Cats and I remembered that I wanted to read this one. Let me share some of the wonderful phrases that found their way into musical. "Jellicle Cats come out to-night Jellicle Cats come one and all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball. " Or, "I have a Gumby Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat: She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumby Cat." And: " You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat - (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to me and don't scoff. All his Inventions are off his own bat." This little book contains so much more from the pen of Mr. Eliot including: The Naming of Cats, Growltiger's Last Stand, The Rum Tum Tugger, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Old Deuteroomy, The Pekes and the Pollicles, Macavity: The Mystery Cat, Gus: The Theatre Cat, Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town, Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat, The Ad-dressing of Cats, and Cat Morgan Introduces Himself. I read and then left this joyful book with my 11-year-old granddaughter who chuckled and sang the verses she had heard again and again in Cats. And, I knew that this was one book that would never be reposted because she will wear it out reading it again and again - just as she has watched the video of Cats again and again.
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