I do not recommend this book. The words are nearly impossible to pronounce and it made it extremely hard to follow with the story. ( )

SUMMARY: A book that had two stories in it that kind of counteracted each other. the first story was Mr. mistoffelees. It is about a cat that was a magician. He was very clever and very nice to other people. He had many friends.
The second story was called Mongojerrie and Rumpleteazer. This story is about two cats that were not nice. The two cats would steal anything they wanted from anybody they seen. They had no friends and everybody blamed stuff on them.

MY REACTION: I love the rhythm that the poems have. I think poems that rhyme are more fun for students to read. When I wrote poems more were poems that rhymed.

CLASSROOM EXTENSION: 1. Have the students write a poem with heir favorite animal that rhymes.
2. Have the students write another poem that counteracts their first poem.
3. Have the students share with the class their favorite poem.

Let me just say I'm biased - I love T.S. Eliot. I loved Cats much longer before then, so when I found out the entire musical came from his poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, I flipped. I cannot read these poems without singing it or humming along. T.S Eliot wrote that book, which Mr. Mistoffelees is pulled from, all based off of his niece's imagination. He'd ask her about the cats she'd play with and hence Jellicles were born. If you want a poem with lots of imagination and wondrous prose-ish plot, go for the cats.
Fair warning, this may appear on another review of a T.S Eliot Jellicle cat picture book, "Growltiger's Last Stand and other poems." ( )