With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. First illustrated edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author as Old Possum on the front free endpaper, "to the Tandy Fambley from O. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

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. Inside, are 64 thick creamy coloured pages, split over sections, as per the CONTENTS page at the front (1st image below refers). The only down-side for me is that the illustrations of the cats lack their individual characteristics as described in the poems.I have craved world building, esoteric codes, political machinations, something to offset the Bob Corkers of my mind. After a Masters at Central Saint Martin's, she worked for the BBC until her lifelong passion for children's books led her to start creating them. He settled in England in 1915, where for a few years he worked in the foreign section of Lloyds Bank. This collection is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round.

Yet Scheffler's drawings are nuanced so that he finds room to make Growltiger sinister, except when he is courting Griddlebone. This is a charming book written in verse, and each chapter is dedicated to a different kind of cat with its own kind of personality.I understand that some people see it as a product of the times and the lack of political correctness, but I can't get past it regardless of those factors.