We must find him or the train can't start!
All aboard as Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat, stars in the third picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's cats, set on the Night Mail train where Skimble won't let anything go wrong. To sit alongside other classics such asThe Gruffalo,The Tiger Who Came to Tea, andSpot.
Thomas Stearns Eliotwas 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 Robinsis a renowned cartoonist and illustrator of over fifty books, includingWhat Use is a Moose?,Bertie was a Watchdog, andThe Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy, as well as the enormously popular seriesSeriously Silly Stories.