Jellicle cats hold music is the song "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats". 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
The King of the Cats king of the cats from this story and Robert Irwin's "Father of Cats" from "The Arabian Nightmare" for his 1998 novel "King Rat". A 2006 biography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood was entitled "King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.". American author P. T. Cooper's 2012 middle-grade children's novel, "The King of the Cats", starts off with a retelling of the original legend but then picks up where the legend left off. The novel tells of the death of Tom Tildrum and the crowning of his successor, Jack Tigerstripes, who is