Bad Bad Cats
  
    
  
Bad Bad Cats - cover Bad Bad Cats
Roger McGough

Penguin 1997
ISBN 0-14-058684-9

Synopsis

Midnight. A knock at the door.
Open it? Better had.
Three heavy cats, mean and bad ...

Watch out for the bad, bad cats creating a stir in this hugely original book of poems for Roger McGough. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always inventive, the enormous variety of poems from this incredibly popular poet will never cease to amaze!

'He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' - The Times Educational Supplement.

Many of Roger's books are available on-line from Penguin:
www.penguin.co.uk/rogermcgoughbooks
   

Bad Bad Cats - Table of Contents
  
The Cats' Protection League
The Cats' Protection League
Fur Exchange
Mafia Cats
A Night on the Tiles
Curtains
Vamoose
  
Waxing Lyrical
Waxing Lyrical
Concise Hints for New Teachers
Plague Around
Here Come the Dinner Ladies
A Weak Poem
Born to Bugle
My Brilliant Friend
Life is a Bucket
Stonehenge
The Magic Skates
The Concise Guide for Travellers 
Tourist Traps
Weather or Not
Fresh
One More Battle
Concise Hints for Scuba Divers
Film
Busy Diary
Moan
4-Eyes
The Drill of It All
A Gottle of Geer
5   Ways to Stop Snowmen Raiding the Fridge
Train Train
Smalling the Block
Nursery Slopes
Three Young Rats
Didgeridoo
We're All Going to the Zoo
Ticklish
Picklish
5   Ways to Stop Grizzly Bears from Spoiling Your Picnic
A Cat I Know
Chutney
Marmalade
The Tingling Ground
5  Ways to Spot the Real Witch at a Hallowe'en party
Monstrance
Why Trees Have Got It All Wrong
A Knight on a Glass Mountain Bike
Trying to Get Blood out of a Stone
5   Ways to Keep Vampires out of Your Bedroom
The Suit
The Sting
Misspelt Youth
A Well-known Phrase or Saying
Daffodils
A Great Poem
3   Ways to Stop Alligators from Biting Your Bottom When You are on the Toilet
Where's Wally?
Late-night News
The House
The Going Pains
What She Did
Penultimate Poem
The Reader of This Poem
  
Carnival of the Animals
The Royal March of the Lion
Cocks and Hens
Asses
Trouble the Tortoise
Elephant
Sticky Paws
People with Long Ears
Spring
Aquarium
Aviary
The Pianists
Fossils
Swans
Finale
     
      
  
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