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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Reminiscent of A.A. Milne's poetry, with fun imagery helped along by Edward Gorey's illustrations.
i tried to prolong each page, only letting myself read one cat a day.
Poor Tim, my love, i torture you
with all my silly rhymes...
He's patient, though it has to stop,
we've lived through harder times.
odd rules of friending a cat
"don't speak til spoken to"
quite unpredictable at that
this book i'm thumbing through
dear Eliot, i love your rhymes
in couplets or in sequence.
there's much i learn
each page i turn,
you've won my cat's allegiance.
***
(so sorry)
i tried to prolong each page, only letting myself read one cat a day.
Poor Tim, my love, i torture you
with all my silly rhymes...
He's patient, though it has to stop,
we've lived through harder times.
odd rules of friending a cat
"don't speak til spoken to"
quite unpredictable at that
this book i'm thumbing through
dear Eliot, i love your rhymes
in couplets or in sequence.
there's much i learn
each page i turn,
you've won my cat's allegiance.
***
(so sorry)
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April 18, 2018
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April 21, 2018
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May 1, 2018
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May 09, 2018 11:10PM
Wonderful to read aloud.
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I want to see "Otis, the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Cat".
Cecily wrote: "Wonderful to read aloud."it IS wonderful to read aloud, isn't it? i started it silently, then again aloud, and it was so much more fun! what a gem.
Nice review Dianne! 📙
Manny wrote: "I want to see "Otis, the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Cat"."I want you to write it!
Starjustin wrote: "Nice review Dianne! 📙"Thanks!
Rather amazing that the author of The Wasteland also managed to deal with McCavity the Mystery Cat, Gus the Theater Cat & Skimbleshanks. I read from this book by my fellow St. Louisan (before he went off to Harvard & then the U.K.) to both of my sons just after they were born & the oldest read the same to his daughter Alice, named after Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. So here's to Mr. Eliot & to cats from a dedicated dog lover! Bill
