Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit)

Matthew, Christopher w/decorations by David Eccles

ISBN 10: 0719565219 / ISBN 13: 9780719565212

Published by London: John Murray, 2003

About this Item

2003 reprint. 112pp. illus. hardback sm 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj. Further "affectionate" updates of A. A. Milne's classic.

Seller Inventory # 17207

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit)
• Publisher: London: John Murray
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719565219
• ISBN 13: 9780719565212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Eccles, David
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Continues the author's zany tribute to A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six in a second collection of hilarious reworkings of Milne's classic verses.

From the Publisher

When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of A.A. Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and foolish as he was ‹ and that grown-ups could be even sillier. Now that he is sixty, he has decided itšs high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who are not only more confused than ever, but are losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys. What he has done is take some of Milnešs best-loved poems and rewritten them for sixty-year-olds, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful, and always thought-provoking. The poems not only follow the familiar rhythms and rhyme schemes of the master, but reinvent that curious mixture of comedy and wistfulness, sharp observation and daft whimsy that has delighted children and adults for over seventy years.