The basis for the musical phenomenon "Cats", this collection of 14 inviting rhymes - the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic - make for a set of poems that both children and adult can enjoy.

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. Axel Scheffler has achieved worldwide acclaim for his illustration. The Gruffalo , published in 1999, has become a modern classic, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide and translated into more than twenty languages. He is the author of many other award-winning titles, including The Gruffalo's Child, Monkey Puzzle, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and Tiddler. An edition of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats with Axel's illustrations was published by Faber in 2009. In 2010, Faber published How to Keep a Pet Squirrel , a gift book for adults. Born in Germany, Axel now lives in London. Miranda Richardson has made a career spanning film, theatre, television and radio. Twice Oscar-nominated, she is known equally for her dramatic and comic roles ranging from Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder to Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire . She is also the much-loved narrator of the Horrid Henry stories. Miranda lives with two practical cats of her own, plus a dog and several fish. She is kept busy trying to fathom the behaviour of them all. Fish are tricky. Klappentext 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." T.S. Eliot 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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'....

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Thomas Stearns Eliot, Amerikaner englischer Abstammung, geb. am 26. September 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri/USA, verbrachte dort, calvinistisch erzogen, seine Kindheit und Jugend. Nach Studienjahren in Harvard, Paris, München und Oxford lebte er ab 1914 in London. 1917 veröffentlichte er seine frühen Gedichte. Von 1925 an war er Mitarbeiter im Verlag 'Faber und Faber'. Mit dem Erwerb der britischen Staatsbürgerschaft trat er 1927 zur anglikanischen Hochkirche über. 1948 erhielt Eliot den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Ausgehend von den literarischen Klassikern wie Vergil, Dante oder Shakespeare schuf er eine im Versmaß freie, abstrakte Lyrik und gab der englischen Sprache neue Impulse. Der Erneuerer der amerikanischen Lyrik und des religiösen Dramas starb am 4. Januar 1965 in London.

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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." T.S. Eliot 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.