Allen & Unwin Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer book English Paperback 32 pages

A wonderful new picture book version of one of T. S. Eliot's most popular cat poems, brought to life by delightfully humorous illustrations from Arthur Robins, a timeless magical partnership.

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats.And when you heard a dining-room smashThen the family would say: 'It's that horrible cat!It was Mungojerrie! and Rumpelteazer!' - And there's nothing at all to be done about that!Join the cat-burglars Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer in the fifth picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's cats, as they steal meat from the oven and pearls from the drawers.

Thomas Stearns Eliot 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.Arthur Robins is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator of over fifty books, including Little Rabbit Foo Foo.