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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
A wonderful new picture book version of one of T. S. Eliot’s most popular cat poems, brought to life by delightfully humorous illustrations from Arthur Robins, a timeless magical partnership.
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Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats.
And when you heard a dining-room smash
Then the family would say: ‘It’s that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie! and Rumpelteazer!’ – And there’s nothing at all to be done about that!
Join the cat-burglars Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer in the fifth picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s cats, as they steal meat from the oven and pearls from the drawers.
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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