Curious Cats: In Art and Poetry for Children

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book Overview

Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -- And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it! The catchy, words of Nobel laureate T. S.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689830556
• ISBN13: 9780689830556
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fun for kids, cats and adults

When I put this book on the coffee table, one of our cats "Greystroke" hopped up and immediately took a nap on it! This book offers classic cat poetry, such as T.S. Eliots "Rum Tum Tugger", William Blakes "The Tyger", and Mother Goose paired with perfectly matched painting from The Metropolitan Museums of Art collection. An excellent job of picking diverse art to go with the poetry! The poems and art are from all over the world, from Japanese Haiku and woodblock prints, to Egyptian sculpture, to contemporary poet Langston Hughes. This book is a delight to read and look at.

Classic feline fun - purrfectly matched art and poems!

I truly enjoyed this book, as did my neices and nephews. They ask me to read it to them quite often, and each one has their own favorite cat. There is a poem in the book that has always been one of my favorites - my wife also found one of her favorites too. All ages will love this literary catnip!