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Insects have appeared in literature from classical times to the present day, an aspect of their role in culture more generally. Insects represent both positive qualities like cooperation and hard work, and negative ones like greed.
Alejandro Possum Virginia opossum: Elinor Wonders Why: A young possum who is one of Elinor's classmates. He is introduced in The Town Picnic, where he is very hungry and struggles to get the ketchup out of the bottle. He is also shown to be proficient at skating, as displayed in his minor appearance in Baby Steps.
Opossums do possess a placenta, [31] but it is short-lived, simple in structure, and, unlike that of placental mammals, not fully functional. [32] The young are therefore born at a very early stage, although the gestation period is similar to that of many other small marsupials, at only 12 to 14 days. [33] They give birth to litters of up to 20 ...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
Jennyanydots is a fictional character from T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.She is also a principal character in the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which is based on Eliot's work.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer [1] are fictional characters in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.The Jellicle cat duo are mischievous petty thieves who often cause trouble for their human family.
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Fox wrote her first draft for Possum Magic in 1978, during a course in children's literature at Flinders University.Over five years, nine publishers rejected the draft. When it was accepted by Omnibus Books in Adelaide they asked Fox to reduce the book, then titled Hush the Invisible Mouse, by two-thirds (the original text ran four and a half pages without illustrations) and to change the mice ...