9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems

by Jeffry Glover

Overview

This amusing collection of animal tales in rhyming verse features felines of all kinds, from pet cats to wild cats both real and fanciful, and a few beloved dogs. Meet a cat who needs encouragement to take a bath, a clever math-whiz cat, a sleepy cat dreaming of catching goldfish, a family pet named Maxie who rules the house matter-of-factly, a cat on the bank of the Nile who encounters a hungry crocodile, cats who think every day is Caturday, a catena of cats with catitude, plus tigers, lions, leopards, a lynx, and an ocelot more. With engaging characters, adventurous twists and turns, and whimsical wordplay, these poems will become pet family favorites to read aloud and treasure.

Middle grade through adult

Flesch Reading Ease Score: 91.3   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948854030
Publisher:	Poems for Pleasure Press LLC
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	736 KB

About the Author

Jeffry Glover, winner of a Robert Frost Foundation national poetry award and a top ten Outstanding Leader in Education award, creates delightful rhyming poems and tales in verse. He draws upon his experience as a school librarian, language arts teacher, book editor, and library games inventor to produce collections of verse that are in turn whimsical, humorous, heartwarming, serious, and fun to read. As a reading promotion and library products developer, his work has reached millions of children and adults on three continents to encourage reading and the use of libraries. In retirement he is publishing multiple volumes of poetry and rhyming tales that continue these endeavors.

Table of Contents

Contents

 

Introductory Poems: A Cat, My Muse; So Many Pet Poems

 

I. 9 Lively Cat Tales: Cat Bath; Tale of the Perspicacious Cat; Tale from Katmandu; Goldfish Dreams; Tyger, Tyger; A Cat Went Fishing; Tiger Tale; The Last Bast Lesson Ever; Who Will Bell the Cat?

 

II. Cuddly Kitty Characters: Little Tyger; Maxie; Maxie Rules; Maxie on Our Bed; What Mew?; Come, Kitty, Kitty; Cats and Sleep; To Categorize Two Cats; Smitten by Kitten

 

III. Tales with Catitude: Catitude; Caturday; A Most Impertinent Kitty Cat; A Cat’s Demand; Feral Cats; What’s With Our Cat?; Your Lucky House Cat; Cat at Work; The Cat Game

 

IV. Cat and Mouse Adventures: Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat; Cat Gift; A Crouching Cat; The Cat from Nice; What Kind of Cat?; In Praise of Alley Cats; Rats for Cats, Not Bats; Cat Spat; Magnifi-cat

 

V. Cat Fancies: A Leopard In a Leotard; Morris, the Math Cat; If Lear Were Here;Pedicure Recompense; The Lynx; A Lazy Lion; Why the Lynx Isn’t Famous; Notice from the Lion; The Manx

 

VI. Feline Troubles: An Incorrigible Cat; The Neighborhood Cat Lady; Yowly Alley Cats; Herding Wild Cats; Cat Lesson; Saving a Lady’s Cat; Cat Wouldn’t Fiddle; Cats of Ancient Egypt; Harbor Cat

 

VII. Wild Cat Tales: The Cheetah; The Cougar; The Leopard; Save the Tyger; The Ocelot_; The Jaguar; Afri-cats; The Polecat and Panther; The Liger

 

VIII. Bow-wow, Meow, and Moo: Bow-wow, Meow, and Moo; A Parakeet and a Cat; The Two-tailed Tomcat; Chary Birds; Not Real News; Hark, the Bark!;

Thin Dog, Fat Cat; Better Dog Days Done; Tale of Caution

 

IX. Doggie Tales: A Dog’s Concerns; A Puppy’s Way; My Wiener Dog; Puppy Fears; My Dog, Ben; What Dogs Do; Red; No Good Goodbye; Walk the Dog

 

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Editorial Reviews

“9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems comes from the winner of a Robert Frost Foundation National Poetry award and combines Jeffry Glover's experience as an author and educator in a collection replete with feisty tales of catitude, fanciful pet troubles, and life lessons…. There's a logical progression to the chapters and poems, which move from domestic to wild cats and then to dogs. Each topic receives nine sets of rhyming poems of nine poems each, in keeping with a cat's nine lives. Additionally, there's a whimsical air to many of the cat personality descriptions, which delve into the realm of fantasy as they probe kitty possibilities and impossibilities alike…. The combination of whimsy, feline insights, and varied, rollicking poetic structures will make 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems appealing not just to young readers absorbing poetry and its relevance for the first time; but to all ages who harbor an affection for rhyme, felines, and fascinating observations of pets and their quirky importance to human lives.” .” - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

“Jeffry Glover’s book, 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems, is quite simply pure fun…. [P]oems and stories are told in rhyming verse and are delightfully purrfect…. They certainly paint a lively picture of beloved pets from infancy to mature adult…. Some of the poems are cute little ditties, others describe a particular memory of a special feline member of the family…. Any pet owner or animal lover will enjoy this lively and often humorous look at the world according to cats (and dogs).” - Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers’ Favorite

“What an impressive collection of varied tributes to our furry friends, filled with frisky wit and whimsy, sure to delight animals lovers of all ages with its antic alliterations (‘feline felon fell in’), not to mention the unexpected, offbeat, and original rhymes (‘... years ago ... oleo’) or (‘... his name is Maxie ... he’s not attackie’). As a retired language arts teacher and librarian, I especially enjoyed the footnotes referencing classical allusions, earlier authors, or other poets’ works so the reader can explore those as well. Christmas shopping for my adult children and grandchildren alike just go easier--they are all going to be amused by reading this riotous romp.” - Sylvia Kremp, Language Arts Teacher and Librarian

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