Old Possum's Book of Practical CATS: Cats Movie Tie-in
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Publishing Details
Old Possum's Book of Practical CATS: Cats Movie Tie-in
By (Author) T. S. Eliot
Illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
3rd December 2019
7th November 2019
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Cats including big cats
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Television, video and film
821.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm
109g
Description
Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.
Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there!
In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history and is now a film starring Taylor Swfit, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward and James Corden.
With illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown.
Author Bio
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
