Tibs the Post Office Cat

Tibs the Post Office Cat
Author: Joyce Dunbar
Publisher: Words & Pictures
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910277201

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.

Catopedia

Catopedia
Author: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1472224795

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.

Getting the Message

Getting the Message
Author: Christopher Browne
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1993
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The history of the British Post Office from its beginnings as a royal service to the arrival of telegraph and telephone.

Cats Who Changed the World

Cats Who Changed the World
Author: Dan Jones
Publisher: OH
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1914317904

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 FĂ©licette, 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.

A Life in the Hills

A Life in the Hills
Author: Katharine Stewart
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788850017

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.

Cat

Cat
Author: Muriel Beadle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1979-10-29
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0671251902

"A Fireside book."/ Includes index./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242).

Heroic Animals

Heroic Animals
Author: Clare Balding
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1529343852

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . . . Able Seacat Simon rescued the crew of HMS Amethyst Bobby the Wonder Dog crossed a continent to find his family Galipolli Murphy carried 250 wounded soldiers to safety Pickles tracked down the stolen World Cup And the Tamworth Two managed to save their bacon Clare Balding's stories of daring, courageous, remarkable creatures who changed our world for the better: from the dog that inspired Lassie to the bear that fought the Nazis.

The Monster who Ate Darkness

The Monster who Ate Darkness
Author: Joyce Dunbar
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A tiny, hungry monster grows bigger and bigger as he eats every bite of darkness on Earth.

Rebel Cats! Brave Tales of Feisty Felines

Rebel Cats! Brave Tales of Feisty Felines
Author: Kimberlie Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1407193562

Fur-raising tales of real-life Rebel Cats! Discover secrets, stories and facts about history's most fascinating felines! An engaging collection about over 30 cats who are the heroes of their own stories, Rebel Cats introduces us to fur-raising facts and adventures from around the world and across the centuries.