And now, my father has died, and his widower returned to the land of his birth, leaving Pippa and Katie Cat needing a new home. Neighbours were popping in daily, but the cats were spending more time away from home, probably seeking human company. As for the revelation, that is meant to be felt by the (adult) reader: When neighbours know each other, these things can’t happen. NEW SITUATION Because the residents don’t talk to each other, they don’t realise. But when they do find out, they’re furious. So Sid moves to Pythagoras Place, where people chat with their neighbours, so they know he’s a six-dinner cat, Numicon Shapes are a handy resource for number activities with young children. Children learn to identify each Numicon Shape and associate it with a number. Sid divides his time between six houses in Aristotle Street: six names, six personalities, and six dinners.

The Numicon Shapes can be explored in a variety of different ways to encourage children to learn about number. They can also be used in counting and calculation activities. Like any contemporary picture book cat, Sid is a grandchild of one of T.S. Eliot’s cats, which have become archetypes. In Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats, cats are basically sorted into ‘houses’ or personality types. Slinky Malinki is a mystery cat, for instance. Six-Dinner Sid". Magpies: Talking About Books For Children. Vol.7. Magpies Magazine. November 1992. p.37. ISSN 0817-0088. The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day - at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid's heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians. A sly commentary on the atomisation and breakdown of traditional social cohesion in urban communities that possibly also contrasts Aristotle and Pythagoras as philosophical and social role models in the form of a children's picture book.Six Dinner Sid was followed up with Six Dinner Sid: A Highland Adventure, which allowed Moore to paint quite a different landscape.

Maria Rodrigues del Gado (1 July 2001). "Big Books Year 2: Six Dinner Sid". Five to Seven. Mark Allen Group. 1 (3): 22–25. doi: 10.12968/ftse.2001.1.3.16942. ISSN 1473-4044. Create a Numicon Shape street using these colourful posters and try a variety of number activities. What are some practical number activities for EYFS? A tale of rampant polyamory and greed. One cat tries to be everything to everyone for the sake of a (very) full stomach. And yet what independent cat hasn't tried something like this?Six-Dinner Sid". Horn Book Guides. Media Source Inc. 1991 . Retrieved 23 September 2021. Delightful story and pictures.

Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilège: The Cat Sample: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BCyDlUKMk (starting from 6:00 minute on) Pip Jones (31 January 2014). "Pip Jones's top 10 cats in children's books". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 September 2021. It's a sweet story of a cat who really thinks he's got it sussed, with all six owners believing Sid belongs to them… until they all find out. Busted!Inga Moore (1945 – present) is an Anglo-Australian author and illustrator of children’s books. As a child, she was very imaginative and drew all the time, illustrating her own stories but also her schoolbooks and homework. After her Latin teacher told her off for her ‘silly drawing’, she sadly stopped making art for a while. Instead of going to art school she worked in lots of boring, unimaginative jobs. But one day, while working in mapmaking, she had to draw some landscapes, and rediscovered her passion. She has also said that reading Father Christmas (1973) by Raymond Briggs was a turning point in her career, as she realised creating a picture book was a wonderful, inspiring thing to do. She began working as an illustrator and returned to England to recapture her childhood memories. During her time living in Hampstead she wrote Six Dinner Sid. Each of Sid’s ‘fursonas’ equate to a different cat archetype as established by folklore, nailed down by T. S. Eliot. DESIRE

The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day – at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid’s heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians. Goodreads reviewer We found friends who might offer the cats a new home, and took them round at time the cats were normally home. We knew Pippa had not been seen for a few days, but food was going, and Katie presumably wasn’t eating all of it.Benjamin Britten's 'For I Will Consider My Cat, Geoffrey' from 'Rejoice in the Lamb' Cantata Sample: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vaGsriUu This original picture book classic has sold over 250,000 copies and is in the Daily Telegraph's top 50 children's books of all time. My father was a vociferous atheist, but the cats’ new humans believe the coGod-incidence of my husband mentioning Pippa and Katie when they’d privately decided to home cats again was a Sign. My father would be very amused - and happy for them all. What does Sid do when they refuse to give him as many meals? Does he apologise? No, of course not, he's a cat. He finds somewhere else - Pythagoras' place to be exact. The street might seem broader, less quaint but the residents are friendly, all know each other and welcome Sid and his dietary requirements with open arms. Sid can just be Sid and everyone's happy with it