Wonderful rhymes, very imaginative and fun to read. Also fun to imagine the cats described. ( )

How could one fail to love a book about cats (sort of) that uses the word terpsichorean? As an aside, one of our cats is having a kitty dream and is snorting and twitching beside me. Anything that mentions derivation from the Greek muse of dance and song or prestidigitation and leger domain is cool in my book. It's a very sweet book, and, while I'm aware that many well-educated linguists would not call it good poetry, I can't help but like it. The best illustrations accompany Growltiger's Last Stand, Rum Tum Tiger and Macavity. While reading the book one of our cat sat beside me alternating through dreaming, chewing on my pencil, sitting on my book, and making look at me noises, while flicking me with her tail. So needy. T.S. Eliot perfectly captures the eidos of the Cat. ( )

I really only like one poem in this book but it's so fun that it's worth owning the book. The poem is 'The Old Gumbie Cat.' It's a great poem to read to kids of all ages. I've gotten laughs from babies and teenagers! ( )

The expressive, creative use of language overcomes the slightly tedious thump-thump rhythms of these poems by an author who clearly knows and loves cats. A pleasant surprise from an author usually considered formidable. ( )

T. S. Eliot has a fabulous vocabulary. Sometimes I had to look up words in the dictionary to understand what they meant. Also, the rhyming is very well done. I only recommend this, however, if you have owned a cat. The poems are nonsense unless you understand cats. ( )