The Cheshire Cheese Dat, a Dickens of a Tale / Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright / 228 pages

Skilley is a most unusual cat.  He doesn't eat mice.  Much prefering cheese, he takes a position at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese as a mouser.  Pip, head of the mice, makes a pact with Skilley to provide him cheese in exchange for his not catching mice.  Skilley fears a ghost inhabits the inn as the mice refer to Nell fondly and sadlly in the past tense.  He hears noises in the attic which he believes to be Nell's ghost.  The noises appear to be made by Mordrid, one of the queen's ravens.  Nell has taught Pip to read and write and Pip helps Mr. Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities.