Author: Joyce Dunbar
Publisher: Words & Pictures
ISBN: 9781910277201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Meet Tibs, son of Toodle, son of Tiddles, son of Toby. A trusted employee of the Post Office. Tibs is paid 2s 6d a week to catch mice but he prefers making friends with them! Join Tibs on a curious cat and mouse adventure where everything is not quite what it seems.... There was trouble at the Post Office: holes in the mails sacks! Letters torn to shreds! Stamps licked through to the glue! When the postmaster discovers that mice are to blame, he decides to employ a brave new cat to sort them out. Tibs comes from a long line of Post Office cats, so his new career should be a piece of cake, except that instead of catching the mice, Tibs would rather make friends with them! Can Tibs teach them how to tidy up, instead of nibbling the post, and will he be able to deliver the reward that he promised? Soon, these unlikely friends are on an adventure that takes them down to the underground Mail Rail where, together, Tibs and the mice find themselves catching more than they bargained for! This charming story based on the life of a real cat called Tibs who was employed by Post Office in the 1950s to catch mice, earning a tidy sum of 2s 6d a week for his dedicated service. With a career spanning 14 years, the real Tibs became a Post Office celebrity. Featuring a cast of warm and loveable characters, this book will have children captivated by a nostalgic world of stamps, letters and underground mail trains.
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Searching for a home, Clarence the cat arrives at the local post office at an opportune time.
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568958408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Reporter Jim Qwilleran and his clue-seeking Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum-Yum, receive an unexpected inheritance, move into the rich-and-famous circuit, and find their taste for the good life spoiled by a shocking murder.
Author: Gabrielle Emilie Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Susie Jenkin-Pearce
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780099363217
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Listening to a seashell, a child learns about the wonders of the sea.
Author: Battersea Cats Home
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 1472224795
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Why do cats cry to come in and then cry to go out again? Why do they chatter silently at the window? Why can't they be trained to fetch your slippers? Where are the most unusual places they've been employed as mousers? Why are there so many cat superstitions? This cat compendium educates and entertains with facts about everything from wild cat ancestry and cat physiology to cat worship and cat movie stars. We'll investigate how cats experience the world and what they think of their human companions and explore why cats have inspired both reverence and fear throughout history. Drawing on the vast body of knowledge belonging to the world's most famous dogs and cats home, the book contains numerous snippets that readers can dip into as well as longer essays and stories that can be enjoyed at leisure. Attractively designed, with charming illustrations, and beautifully packaged as a hardback gift book, this is the ideal present for every cat lover.
Author: Gail Haley
Publisher: Encore Editions
ISBN: 9780684173733
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Searching for a home, Clarence the cat arrives at the local post office at an opportune time.
Author: Dan Jones
Publisher: OH
ISBN: 1914317904
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The cat-tastic companion to Dogs Who Changed the World. 50 awe-inspiring stories of cats who have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined everything. These inspiring, humorous, heart-breaking, or just plain weird stories reveal why cats have earned their place as our weirdest, most endearing companions, and how our fascination with them is age-old. Along the way you'll meet Félicette, the first moggy in space; Unsinkable Sam, a sea-faring feline; Tama, the railway cat who saved a community; and Snowball, the crime-solving cat. Cats Who Changed the World celebrates the unique relationship we have with our feline best friends, from contemporary times to all throughout history.
Author: Katharine Stewart
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788850017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland's best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. A Croft in the Hills, her first book, tells the story of how a couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, took over a remote hill croft near Loch Ness and made a living from it. Full of warm personal insights, good humour and a love of living things, it has become a classic and has rarely been out of print since it was first published in 1960. This omnibus gathers A Croft in the Hills together with some of Katharine's later books: A Garden in the Hills, describing a year in the life of her Highland garden; A School in the Hills, a vivid history of the school at Abriachan which eventually became the Stewarts' family home; and The Post in the Hills, which tells the dramatic story of the postal service in the Highlands, from the point of view of Katharine's later role as postmistress of the smallest post office in Scotland, run from the porch of her Abriachan schoolhouse. Each of these books glows with what Neil Gunn described as 'its unusual quality, its brightness and its wisdom'. The omnibus will bring the grace, charm and wisdom of Katharine Stewart's writing to a new generation of readers.
Author: Gabrielle E. Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330610862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Excerpt from The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice the True Story of a Cat About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
