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Old Toffer's book of consequential dogs / Christopher Reid ; drawings by Elliot Elam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 107 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571334094
  • 0571334091
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A rowdy assembly -- The naming of dogs -- Flo : the philosophical foxhound -- Heath, hill, park and street -- Lola's circus -- Dobson : the dog detective -- Boffo dogs -- Howling Jenny -- Leopold : prince of lap dogs -- Towzle versus the trainers -- Molly : a dog of the night -- Frazzlesprat -- Jack and Jill : a pait of mutts -- Praise song for the Ballybeg Rosie -- Benbow's ghost -- Doggerl and Wagtail -- A Wagtail sonnet -- Dog Juan -- Bess : the champion peopledog -- Old bloke -- The stray -- Fill your home with happy hounds!
Summary: "T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats."--Publisher's description.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 821.914 R353 Available 33111009420437
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 821.914 R353 Available 33111009586864
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

T. S Eliot's Old Possum's Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master of poetry Christopher Reid and illustrated by Elliot Elam.

Poetry.

A rowdy assembly -- The naming of dogs -- Flo : the philosophical foxhound -- Heath, hill, park and street -- Lola's circus -- Dobson : the dog detective -- Boffo dogs -- Howling Jenny -- Leopold : prince of lap dogs -- Towzle versus the trainers -- Molly : a dog of the night -- Frazzlesprat -- Jack and Jill : a pait of mutts -- Praise song for the Ballybeg Rosie -- Benbow's ghost -- Doggerl and Wagtail -- A Wagtail sonnet -- Dog Juan -- Bess : the champion peopledog -- Old bloke -- The stray -- Fill your home with happy hounds!

"T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats."--Publisher's description.

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