"in the book ""Alice in Wonderland"" was inspired by a carving in Croft church. Another possible inspiration was the British Shorthair: Carroll saw a representative British Shorthair illustrated on a label of Cheshire cheese. The Cat Fanciers' Association profile reads: ""When gracelessness is observed, the British Shorthair is duly embarrassed, quickly recovering with a 'Cheshire cat smile'”. In 1992, members of the Lewis Carroll Society attributed it to a gargoyle found on a pillar in St Nicolas Church, Cranleigh, where Carroll used to travel frequently when he lived in Guildford (though this is doubtful as he moved to Guildford some"
"Cheshire Cat (comics) Cheshire Cat is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Cheshire Cat first appeared in ""Power Man"" #47 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Ron Wilson, and Ed Hannigan. A crime lord called Big Brother summoned Cheshire Cat over from Los Angeles to help him against a rival crime lord called Baron. Working as an informant, he told Big Brother where Power Man could be found. Cheshire Cat followed Luke Cage and informed Big Brother that he survived his fight with Chemistro II, which was being witnessed by Baron's henchman Checkpoint Charlie."
"tried to leave Manhattan during the spider outbreak and was defeated by Heroes for Hire. Cheshire Cat has the ability to become invisible and intangible. He can also teleport with his arrival being a secret due to his invisibility. Cheshire Cat (comics) Cheshire Cat is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Cheshire Cat first appeared in ""Power Man"" #47 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Ron Wilson, and Ed Hannigan. A crime lord called Big Brother summoned Cheshire Cat over from Los Angeles to help him against a rival crime lord called Baron. Working"
"or red for ""unavailable"". At the top of the Great Library is a large dome that appears to see a large forest like area below, with other Great Libraries in the distance; there being one for every language. The 26 basements, known as the Well of Lost Plots, hold unpublished works, although whether they are arranged alphabetically by level or not has yet to be discovered. Books which are not published are scrapped, and their text recycled for future works. The Cheshire Cat is the librarian of the Great Library, although due to redistricting in England since the book in"
"Local Government Commissions) the Cheshire Cat is now technically referred to as the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, but still generally known by his original appellation. He serves as an über-librarian to the Grand Library, as well as a high-ranking JurisFiction official. His work is especially significant in ""Something Rotten"", where after years of searching he finds Yorrick Kaine's origin—a self-published novel not even in the Library—and engages Kaine in a Merlin-versus-Madame Mim-esque battle of summoning literary warriors, eventually calling upon the Blue Fairy from ""Pinocchio"" to turn Kaine into a real person. Resident cad within Daphne Farquitt's ""The Squire"
"Cheshire Cat appears in ""Once Upon a Time in Wonderland"" (a spin-off of ""Once Upon a Time"") voiced by Keith David. While looking for the Mad Hatter's house from the trees, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat in giant form where the Red Queen had promised him that Alice would be good food for him. They end up engaging each other in combat until the Knave of Hearts arrives and throws a piece of one mushroom side into his mouth, which shrinks the Cat back to normal size, and he leaves. The Cheshire Cat appears as an avatar character in several"
"mind pretending to be a cat and that he likes his life as a pet. That Pesky Rat That Pesky Rat is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Lauren Child and published by Orchard UK in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and it was commended runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book. Candlewick Press published a US edition in the same year. In 2008 a special UNESCO edition was published in the UK. All author and publisher profits from"
"The Ship's Cat The Ship's Cat, also known under its full title of The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres, is a 1977 children's narrative poem that was written by Richard Adams with illustrations by Alan Aldridge. The book was first published through Jonathan Cape and describes the adventures of an anthropomorphic Elizabethan ship's cat. The book follows a ship cat referred to only as ""Cat"" or ""Ship's Cat"" who serves as a swashbuckling crew member of"
"Wild Cat (boat) The Wild Cat is a fictional green two-masted schooner that Captain Flint, the Swallows, the Amazons and Peter Duck sail to the West Indies in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons book ""Peter Duck"". She also appears in the opening chapters of ""Missee Lee"". The ship would have been about 50 ft (15 m) long. In the book and the illustrations there is no mention of a head. This is typical of Arthur Ransome's reticence on the issue. The name is taken from Wild Cat Island which features in all the books set in the Lake District. She"
"in Kenya. The 2005 film ""Duma"" was loosely based on this book. The cheetah has often been featured in marketing and animation. In 1986 Frito-Lay introduced the Chester Cheetah, an anthropomorphic cheetah, as the mascot for their Cheetos. The first release of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, the Mac OS X 10.0, was code-named ""Cheetah""; the subsequent versions released before 2013 were all named after cats. The animated series ""ThunderCats"" had a character named ""Cheetara"", an anthropomorphic cheetah, voiced by Lynne Lipton. Comic book superheroine Wonder Woman's chief adversary is Dr.Barbara Ann Minerva, alias The Cheetah. Cheetah The cheetah (;"
"That Pesky Rat That Pesky Rat is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Lauren Child and published by Orchard UK in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and it was commended runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book. Candlewick Press published a US edition in the same year. In 2008 a special UNESCO edition was published in the UK. All author and publisher profits from this book now go to support UNESCO projects around the world. The story is narrated"
"Joseph Chamberlain is the Prefferwense, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the Knave of Hearts; Arthur Balfour is the March Hare and Humpy Dumpy; Archibald Philip Primrose is Tweedle-R., Henry Campbell-Bannerman is Twee-C.-B., Jesse Collings is the White Rabbit, and Spencer Compton Cavendish is the Dormouse. John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland is a novel by Charles Geake and Francis Carruthers Gould, written in 1904 and published by Methuen & Co. of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass""."
"which he appears was written, the Cheshire Cat is now known as the Cat Formerly Known as Cheshire, or Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat. The ""engine room"" of BookWorld, Text Grand Central uses so-called ""storycode engines"" to observe changes in books and allow the reader to read books using a complex ""imaginotransference system"" to supposedly continue the images being created in the reader's mind. Within the depths of the Well of Lost Plots, the Text Sea is the source of all text for all books, and is the general burial ground for all destroyed characters to be once more reduced"
"riddles and behaves in a similar manner to the Cheshire Cat from ""Alice in Wonderland"". In ""The Grey Horse"" by R. A. MacAvoy. an Irish fantasy set in the time of Parnell, the ""púca"" is a Connemara pony, in its animal form. In the novel ""From the Little the Much is Known"", a fantasy book set in modern day Esquimalt, British Columbia, by Sean MacUisdin, a Puca living in the old gun battery at Macaulay Point is encountered by the main character, Jennifer MacGregor. It is portrayed as both a powerful black horse as well as a bizarre creature with"
"Blitzcat Blitzcat is a 1989 novel by Robert Westall, and recipient of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. ""Blitzcat"" is told through the point of view of a black domestic cat, called Lord Gort, as she travels across England during the Blitz in search of her owner, who is serving with the RAF. The story includes a detailed depiction of the bombing of Coventry. In 1989, ""Blitzcat"" was named winner of the Smarties Book Prize in the 9 – 11 years category. In 1994, the American Library Association named ""Blitzcat"" as one of their 100 Best Books for Young Adults of"
"meaning of catenary: the curve of a horizontally-suspended chain, which suggests the shape of the cat's grin. There are many other suggestions that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St. Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Daresbury, Cheshire. Lewis Carroll's father, Reverend Charles Dodgson, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from 1843 to 1868; Carroll lived here from 1843 to 1850. Historians believe Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat"
"addition to the Cheshire Cat's appearances in films central to its Lewis Carroll origins, the Cheshire Cat has been featured in other cinematic works. The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave his monumental documentary on the New Left movement of 1967–1977, ""Le fond de l'air est rouge"" (1977), the English title ""Grin Without a Cat"". Like the original, it signifies that revolution was in the air, but failed to take root. In the film, it is also stated: ""a spearhead without a spear, a grin without a cat""The Cheshire Cat has been seen by television audiences in a broadcast spin-off. The"
"steal a ship, with the intent to sail back to England. Their acts are soon detected by the gaoler and his friends, who give chase until they come across Sir Francis Drake, who is just starting on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Free of their pursuers, the cat reveals to the rest of the crew that their stolen ship contained treasure, to the crew's joy. The book ends with the crew returning home, where Queen Elizabeth I knights the cat for his valor. The ""West Coast Review of Books"" rated ""The Ship's Cat"" at three stars. The Ship's Cat"
"deal of his time fantasizing about being a ladies' man or a gentleman in a Jane Austen novel. Looshkin is depicted as a mentally disturbed cat who has a blue pelt. He has large, sharply pointed ears that look like party hats. He is a bipedal creature with opposable thumbs that make him able to pick up objects, much to the displeasure of others. His activities usually consist of senseless babblings and innumerable sadistic acts on people, chiefly his housemate Bear, or whoever is closest when he gets his hands on a likely weapon. He is a humorous character (in"
"and making a soup that has too much pepper, which causes Alice, the Duchess, and her baby (but not the cook or grinning Cheshire Cat) to sneeze violently. Alice is given the baby by the Duchess and to her surprise, the baby turns into a pig. The Cheshire Cat appears in a tree, directing her to the March Hare's house. He disappears but his grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat. Chapter Seven – A"
"business, and science. Prior to 1951 when Walt Disney released an animated adaptation of the story (see below), there were few post-Alice allusions to the character. Martin Gardner, author of ""The Annotated Alice"", wondered if T. S. Eliot had the Cheshire Cat in mind when writing ""Morning at the Window"", but notes no other significant allusions in the pre-war period. Images of and references to the Cheshire Cat cropped up with increasing frequency in the 1960s and 1970s, along with more frequent references to Carroll's works in general. (""See generally"" the lyrics to ""White Rabbit"" by the rock group Jefferson"
"and ""Amazon"" are aboard and used as lifeboats when she sinks. <br> Wild Cat (boat) The Wild Cat is a fictional green two-masted schooner that Captain Flint, the Swallows, the Amazons and Peter Duck sail to the West Indies in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons book ""Peter Duck"". She also appears in the opening chapters of ""Missee Lee"". The ship would have been about 50 ft (15 m) long. In the book and the illustrations there is no mention of a head. This is typical of Arthur Ransome's reticence on the issue. The name is taken from Wild Cat Island"
"home. Talking to a footman, Carstairs is informed that there used to be a cat, but it was destroyed a week ago and buried in the grounds. There are further appearances of this apparition, and they realise that it is targeting Lady Carmichael. Carstairs even dreams of the cat the following night: in the dream, he follows it into the library and it shows him to a gap in the volumes on the bookshelf. The next morning, Carstairs and Settle find that there is a book missing from that very spot in the room, and Carstairs glimpses the truth later"
"uses him for her dirty deeds but he follows her orders pretty willingly. He is just about the exact opposite of the White Rabbit. Played by Danny Stiles. For the 2017 UK Tour, El Gato was renamed to simply The Cheshire Cat as well as Chloe being renamed to Ellie. The musical numbers from the 2011 Broadway production are as follows: † - Lyric or music changes, different from the Broadway cast recording. †† - Does not appear on the Broadway cast recording. The numbers ""Cat Shoe Shuffle"", ""Love Begins"" and ""This Is Who I Am"" were added for the"
"would later become the title of Lloyd-Webber's next musical. ""Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"" (poem) Skimbleshanks Skimbleshanks is a cat character in T. S. Eliot's book of poetry ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"". The T. S Eliot poem begins as a parody of Rudyard Kipling's poem ""l'Envoi"" (also known as ""The Long Trail"") from ""Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses"". Compare the first few lines of Kipling's Skimbleshanks is described as living on the Night Mail overnight express train that travels on the British West Coast Main Line (WCML) between London Euston and Glasgow"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"Awards 4Children Special Award: ""Fergus Crane"" by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell (Doubleday) – selected by after school clubs Gold Awards Kids' Club Award: ""The Countess's Calamity"" by Sally Gardner Gold Awards Kids' Club Network Special Award: ""That Pesky Rat"" by Lauren Child (Orchard Books) Gold Awards Kids' Club Network Special Award: ""What Planet Are You From Clarice Bean?"" by Lauren Child (Orchard Books) Gold Awards Kids' Club Network Special Award: ""Lizzie Zipmouth"" by Jacqueline Wilson, illus. Nick Sharratt (Young Corgi) Gold Awards Gold Awards Gold Awards Gold Awards Overall: ""Double Act"" by Jacqueline Wilson (Doubleday) Overall: ""The Exiles at"
"Cheshire (comics) Cheshire (Jade Nguyen) is a fictional DC Comics supervillainess. Cheshire first appeared in ""New Teen Titans"" Annual #2 (1983) and was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. Born (allegedly, see below) to a French father and a Vietnamese mother, Jade Nguyen had an unhappy childhood and was sold into slavery. As a young adult, after killing her master, Jade was informally adopted by Chinese freedom fighter Weng Chan, who taught her all he knew about guerrilla fighting. She acquired knowledge of poisons from Kruen Musenda, a famed African assassin known as the ""Spitting Cobra"", whom she was"
"Mr. Mistoffelees Mr. Mistoffelees is a character in T. S. Eliot's poetry book ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and its stage adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical ""Cats"". He is an important primary character, and one of the most popular of the show. He is also sometimes named Quaxo. Mistoffelees' name derives from the demon Mephistopheles. However, the character is not sinister as the name implies, and instead is described by Eliot as being ""the original conjuring cat"", who is ""always deceiving you into believing that he's only hunting for mice"" — a mysterious quiet and small black feline"
"no cat in their home. Talking to a footman, Carstairs is informed that there used to be a cat, but it was destroyed a week ago and buried in the grounds. There are further appearances of this apparition, and they realise that it is targeting Lady Carmichael. Carstairs even dreams of the cat the following night: in the dream, he follows it into the library and it shows him to a gap in the volumes on the bookshelf. The next morning, Carstairs and Settle find that there is a book missing from that very spot in the room, and Carstairs"
"Jellicle cats ""Jellicle cats"", or simply the ""Jellicles"", are a type of feline mentioned in T. S. Eliot's book ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"", and in ""Cats"", a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book. Introduced in Eliot's poem ""The Song of the Jellicles"", they were originally depicted as commonly nocturnal gray, scruffy cats. Specifically, Eliot mentions that they like to gather at an event called the ""Jellicle Ball"". In the musical, a sub-plot surrounds the disappearance of the Jellicle patriarch Old Deuteronomy. The names are taken from Eliot's poem ""The Naming of Cats"""
"a book written by Terry Pratchett, with cartoons by Gray Jolliffe. Other well-known cartoon bicolor cats include Sylvester the Cat, Krazy Kat, Felix the Cat, Tom Cat from ""Tom and Jerry"", Jess from ""Postman Pat"", Kitty Softpaws from the ""Shrek"" spin-off ""Puss in Boots"", Figaro, Beans and Sebastian the cat from ""Josie and the Pussycats"". A bicolor cat named Mittens is one of the main characters in the 2008 Disney animated film ""Bolt"". Aldwyn from ""The Familiars"" is a tuxedo cat, while Meowrice (voiced by Paul Frees) from ""Gay Purr-ee"" is a bicolor. A tuxedo cat is also the protagonist"
"""Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride"" (1981), ""Chester Cricket's New Home"" (1983), ""Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse"" (1986), and ""The Old Meadow"" (1987). Furthermore, in 2011 Macmillan released three ""Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse"" books by Thea Feldman based on characters in ""The Cricket in Times Square"": ""Harry to the Rescue!"", ""Starring Harry"", and ""Tucker's Beetle Band"".. The Cricket in Times Square The Cricket in Times Square is a 1960 children's book by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams. It won the Newbery Honor in 1961. Selden gave this explanation of what was the initial idea for the book: The story"