9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems

By Jeffry Glover

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poems for Pleasure Press LLC
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781948854030

Jeffry Glover

Jeffry Glover is an award-winning author who creates rhyming poems and tales in verse that are in turn whimsical and witty, humorous and heartwarming, serious, and just plain fun. As a language arts teacher, school librarian, and library promotion specialist he has spent a lifetime encouraging reading, and his work has reached millions of children and adults around the world. He now publishes books of poetry on almost every topic under the sun.

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9 Lively Cat Tales

and Other Pet Poems

"9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems is quite simply pure fun.... delightfully purrfect!...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 animal lovers of all ages with its antic alliterations.... Christmas shopping for my adult children and grandchildren alike just got easier—they are all going to be amused by reading this riotous romp.

—Sylvia Kremp, Language Arts Teacher and Librarian

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Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data

(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)

Names: Glover, Jeffry (Jeffry Keith), 1946- author. | Bausman, Mary, cover designer.

Title: 9 lively cat tales and other pet poems / Jeffry Glover ; [cover by Mary Bausman].

Other Titles: Nine lively cat tales and other pet poems

Description: First edition. | Stoughton, Wisconsin : Poems for Pleasure Press, 2019.

Identifiers: ISBN 9781948854009 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781948854016 (softcover) | ISBN 9781948854030 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Cats--Poetry. | Pets--Poetry. | BISAC: POETRY / American General. | HUMOR / Topic / Animals. | PETS / Cats / General. | LCGFT: Poetry. | Stories in rhyme.

Classification: LCC PS3607.L6844 A619 2019 (print) | LCC PS3607.L6844 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

Library of Congress Control Number:2019910737

Cover design and illustration by Mary Bausman. Editing Assistance by KJ Forest. Interior book design by Adept Content Solutions LLC with initial book layout © 2017 BookDesignTemplates.com under multi-book license. Font software: © 2010 Sebastian Kosch ([e-mail]) with reserved font name Crimson Text and © 2016 The Nunito Project Authors ([e-mail]) with reserved font name Nunito Sans licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 available at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL. Author photo by Express Portraits.

To support sustainability Poems for Pleasure Press books are printed by Ingram on responsibly sourced, acid-free, archival quality paper meeting the American National Standard for Informational Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, per www.ingramspark.com/environmental-responsibility.

First Edition 2019

Printed in the Unites States of America

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