Now We Are Sixty And A Bit (Signed)

Matthew, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0719565219 / ISBN 13: 9780719565212

Published by John Murray, 2003

About this Item

Flat signed by the author. 5th printing. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Seller Inventory # 9999-999103295153

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Now We Are Sixty And A Bit (Signed)
• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719565219
• ISBN 13: 9780719565212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Eccles, David
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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.