Cat Classics in Print: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)

Today’s Cat Classic in Print is T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,
which we think should be in every cat person’s library. This Book of Practical Cats, first published
in 1939, is a slim collection of 15 bits of whimsical verse, each of which begs
to be read aloud. These poems are also the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
musical Cats.





Eliot (1888–1965) began writing