The Cheshire Cheese Cat : A Dickens of a Tale (Hardcover)

from lostinalibrary

The Cheshire Cheese Inn makes the best cheese in all of Victorian England. As a result, it attracts many prominent patrons including author Charles Dickens. It also attracts a huge number of mice. The Cheshire Cheese is badly in need of a cat. As luck would have it, Skilley, an alley cat with a s...

from lindap69

"He was the best of toms, he was the worst of toms" so begins this story of an alley cat more interested in cheese than mice, his unlikely partnership with Pip the mouse and their adventures in the finest cheese shop in London often frequented by a writer struggling for a new story and the right ...

from francescadefreitas

A cat, a mouse, Dickens, cheese, and hot peppers. In an inn full of mysteries, a cat and a mouse attempt to pull off an unthinkable confidence trick. But theirs is far from the only secret. And of course Dickens plays a minor role, and his characters and phrases are scattered though the story. I ...

from Maydacat

Skilley is a bright cat but not an ambitious one. Hoping for a life of ease at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Inn, his plans are thwarted when a clever little mouse discovers two secrets about Skilley. Can a mouse and a cat work together for the good of them both? Maybe, but then something happens that ...

from thornton37814

What a fascinating tale the authors of this delighful book weave! Skilley, a cat, forms a friendship with Pip, a mouse at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese inn. Skilley promises not to eat the mice if they bring him some of the inn's wonderful cheese. He also learns of Maldwyn, a raven from the Tower of Lo...