You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Rebecca works from her studio in the countryside near Stroud (UK), where she lives with her husband and two children. It would be more interesting in a picture book if there were more interaction between text and illustration, even for classics like this. I mean, Vanity Fair actually ran an article entitled: ‘The Cats Catastrophe: Is Tom Hooper Going to Director’s Jail? If cats, witchy or not, are your child’s thing don’t miss the new Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats, with whimsical illustrations by Edward Gorey. I would have liked it if individual lines had had their own illustrations and it would have been good for the text to wrap itself around the pictures.As their friendship deepened, Eliot frequently visited the Tandys and they also kept up a regular correspondence. Despite this, it takes someone older to understand the eccentric brilliance of this darling little book.

Now that my copy is starting to fall apart, I'm considering breaking it up and just keeping the illustrations. De hecho tiene tres: el que le dan y todos conocen, después uno peculiar que le da orgullo, y luego está aquel, el secreto, que solamente éste conoce.In 1954, English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon afterwards, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker. Admittedly the hyper-sexualisation of Eliot’s text is eyebrow-raising, and means this is certainly no Pixar movie.