Geoffrey Tandy Geoffrey Tandy Geoffrey A. Tandy (1900–1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. Tandy graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and pursued graduate studies at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He was employed at the Natural History Museum in London from 1926 to 1948, specialising in the biology of algae, after which he worked for the British Foreign Office until 1954. A friend of T. S. Eliot, Tandy wrote a "Broadcasting Chronicle" for "The Criterion", and was the first to broadcast "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" in 1937. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley
Possum Magic Books in Adelaide they asked Fox to reduce the four-and-a-half page book, then titled "Hush the Invisible Mouse", by two-thirds and to change the mice to Australian animals to place emphasis on her Australian theme. As of 2011, "Possum Magic" sold three million copies. In 2017, the Royal Australian Mint struck a series of $1 and $2 coins to commemorate the book. Possum Magic Possum Magic is a picture book by Australian author Mem Fox. The two main characters are Grandma Poss and Hush. Hush has been made invisible by Grandma to protect her from Australian bush dangers. The story