title: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
text: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a book of poems about cats. The cats in these poems act like humans. It is by T. S. Eliot. It was first sold in 1939. Andrew Lloyd Webber used most of the poems in his musical Cats.
  
  Contents of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot:
   The Naming of Cats
   The Old Gumbie Cat
   Growltiger’s Last Stand
   The Rum Tum Tugger
   Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
   Old Deuteronomy
   The Pekes and the Pollicles
   Mr. Mistoffelees
   Macavity: The Mystery Cat
   Gus: The Theatre Cat
   Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town
   Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
   The Ad-dressing of Cats
   Cat Morgan Introduces Himself (added in the 1962 edition and not included in the musical)
  
  References
  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
  
  1939 books
  20th-century British poems