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. The poems themselves are of course classics but Axel Scheffler's beautiful (and funny) illustrations are what will make children treasure this book and demand that it be read and re-read.

So, I'm really more of a dog guy, and I don't know if that's the reason or if it was the horribly ridiculous musical or what, but despite considering T. Pero, sea como sea, arranca reconocimiento a cualquier conocedor de gatos -amante o no de estos - y una sonrisa. Durante cerca de meia hora, pespegou-se-me um sorriso nos lábios que, periodicamente, desaparecia para ser trocado por uma gargalhada. I read it to my grandchildren of 9 and 5 and they enjoyed it very much, especially as they have cats at home.I tend to like this better than the Bentley and Gorey editions, and this edition is really well worth it.

Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his godchildren. They have also been published in versions illustrated by Edward Gorey (1982), Axel Scheffler (2009) and Rebecca Ashdown (2014).The illustrations are really nice too, i was worried there wouldn’t be enough illustrations in the book, or that the pictures wouldn’t be that great, but they were beautiful and compliment the book nicely. The only down-side for me is that the illustrations of the cats lack their individual characteristics as described in the poems. The book features all the poems and is really fun to flip through and read with children, I find myself wanting my own copy.