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Thomas Sterne Eliot was not a children's writer. He was one of the greatest "adult" poets of the twentieth century, an astute literary critic, a wise editor, a renowned intellectual, and for this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1948. And this book is one of the most famous jokes of the Old Possum (as the poet usually signed his funny or caustic works). Eliot was very fond of cats, and as a joke, while on holiday, he wrote a wonderful book about them, which was immediately loved by both adults and children. So much so that the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber later created the equally famous musical Cats based on it.