These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems; later inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's...

Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

A collection of thirty-six poems about all kinds of cats, from old grumbling cats to proud cats who sit tall, by poets including Eve Merriam, Jane Yolen, John Ciardi, and T.S. Eliot.

Poems that tell why cats climb trees when they can't get down, what's so appealing about trash cans, and why the gift of a dead bird means, "I love you."

Collects poems from the perspective of various cats who love, stalk, and sleep.

Cats sleep on tables, chairs, sofas, in closets, in shoeboxes--all around the house.

A story in concrete poetry in which a dog slips out of his house and meets a white cat left alone on the street. Together their adventure begins.

While Sam, the dog, tries to explain that everyone should be allowed their own way of doing things, Emma, the cat, can only scoff at the animals they meet during their walk through the woods.