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  2. Elizabeth Coatsworth - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

  3. The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Wikipedia

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    [3] The unusually good behavior of the cat causes the painter to feel more affectionate, and he names the animal "Good Fortune". At breakfast, the painter notices that the cat appears to be paying homage to the image of the Buddha, and he reflects on his own lack of prayer because of the hard times he has lived through.

  4. The Great Cat Massacre - Wikipedia

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    An early exchange between Darnton and French cultural historian Roger Chartier was subjected to a scathing analysis by Dominic LaCapra of the 'Great Symbol Massacre' involved. [5] Harold Mah in 1991 focused directly on Darnton's account of the 'Massacre', arguing ultimately that the author had 'suppressed' the actual nature of the source in ...

  5. Archy and Mehitabel - Wikipedia

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    Marquis introduced Archy into his daily newspaper column at New York's Evening Sun.Archy—whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form—was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in ...

  6. Hate That Cat - Wikipedia

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    Reviews of Hate That Cat have been positive including "Teachers will welcome both Jack’s poems and Creech’s embedded writing lessons." [2] and "Her writing style puts a story into poetic form and creates a book that appeals to reluctant readers and to children of all ages." [3] The book has also appeared on school reading lists. [4] [5] [6]

  7. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Jubilate Agno - Wikipedia

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    The poem is chiefly remembered today – especially among cat lovers – for the 74-line section wherein Smart extols the many virtues and habits of his cat, Jeoffry. [31] To this Neil Curry remarks, "They are lines that most people first meet outside the context of the poem as a whole, as they are probably the most anthologized 'extract' in ...

  9. Kit Wright - Wikipedia

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    Kit Wright FRSL (born 17 June 1944) is an English writer who is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, [1] and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award.