'Some people are born beautiful. Others can sing, or dance, or wiggle their ears. But Jimmy Jenkins couldn't do any of these. Teachers even forgot his name, and referred to him as 'that boy with the red face', or 'him with the grey socks'.But one night in the middle of May, something changed all of this.'Leroy the Literacy Cat tells the story of Jimmy Jenkins, a little boy so unremarkable that even his own mother forgot his name. But a chance meeting with a magical cat was to change all of this forever and lead the unsuspecting youngster to literary stardom. "Hilarious! This book made me laugh out loud.

There aren't many hero-poets, and Jimmy Jenkins is the most unlikely of them all.".