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Skimbleshanks
A wonderful new picture book version of one of T. S. Eliot’s most popular cat poems from a timeless magical partnership.
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A wonderful new picture book version of one of T. S. Eliot’s most popular cat poems from a timeless magical partnership.
We must find him or the train can’t start!
All aboard as Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat, stars in the third picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s cats, set on the Night Mail train where Skimble won’t let anything go wrong.
To sit alongside other classics such as The Gruffalo, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, and Spot.
‘Beautifully illustrated to bring the poem to life.’ Independent
‘A fabulous way to introduce young readers to poetry.’ Huffington Post
Skimbleshanks is a welcome addition to the stable. A fabulous way to introduce younger readers to poetry.
Beautifully illustrated to bring the poem to life.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet, critic, publisher, was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915, where for a few years he worked in the foreign section of Lloyds Bank. His first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917. In 1922, he became editor of the literary journal, The Criterion, publishing The Waste Land in its first…
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