Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Average rating4.2
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Ratings12
Average rating4.2
First published in 1939, T. S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time favourites of children's literature.
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Unexpectedly simple. Quietly true. And it's all poems. By T. S. Eliot, no less. And all about cats.
Well a book is a book,
And a cat is a cat.
And calling the former the latter,
There's just no good in that!
This book is so famous,
For Eliotism.
And yet he still shames us,
With too much racism...
Adorable poems with delightful turns of phrase (other than some racial language that sends you crashing back to the 1930s). Some of the greatest cat names ever imagined. If you're hoping for some additional context to help make sense of the musical, though, you won't find any.
