1. Target
  2. Movies, Music & Books
  3. Books
  4. Kids' Books
  5. Elementary Kids' Books

Skimbleshanks - (Old Possum Picture Books) by T S Eliot (Paperback)

Skimbleshanks - (Old Possum Picture Books) by  T S Eliot (Paperback)
Store: Target
Last Price: 9.95 USD

Similar Products

Products of same category from the store

All

Product info

<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in 1939 in 'Old Possum's book of practical cats' by Faber and Faber Ltd, ... London"--Colophon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>We must find him or the train can't start!</i> <p/>All aboard as Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat, stars in the third picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's cats, set on the Night Mail train where Skimble won't let anything go wrong. To sit alongside other classics such as <i>The Gruffalo</i>, <i>The Tiger Who Came to Tea</i>, and <i>Spot</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Thomas Stearns Eliot</b> was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. <p/><b>Arthur Robins</b> is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator of over fifty books, including <i>What Use is a Moose?</i>, <i>Bertie was a Watchdog</i>, and <i>The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy</i>, as well as the enormously popular series <i>Seriously Silly Stories</i>.<br>

Price History