What is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats?
{{italictitle}} '''''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats''''' is a [[book]] of [[poem]]s about [[cat]]s. The cats in these poems act like humans. It is by [[T. S. Eliot]]. It was first sold in [[1939]]. [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] used most of the poems in his [[musical]] ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''. Contents of ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' by T. S. Eliot: * The Naming of Cats * The Old Gumbie Cat * Growltiger’s Last Stand * The Rum Tum Tugger * Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer * Old Deuteronomy * The Pekes and the Pollicles * Mr. Mistoffelees * Macavity: The Mystery Cat * Gus: The Theatre Cat * Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town * Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat * The Ad-dressing of Cats * Cat Morgan Introduces Himself (added in the 1962 edition and not included in the musical) ==References== *[http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/oldpossumlex.html Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317131312/http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/oldpossumlex.html |date=2008-03-17 }} [[Category:1939 books]] [[Category:20th-century British poems]]