Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit) - Hardcover

Matthew, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719565219 ISBN 13: 9780719565212

Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd, 2003

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.

About this title

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 it¹s 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 Milne¹s 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.

About the Author:

Apart from Now We Are Sixty, Christopher Matthew, is best known for his Diary of a Somebody and its accident-prone hero Simon Crisp, whom Sheridan Morley called 'one of the greatest comic characters of our time'. He has been a columnist for most of the major newspapers, currently writes on books and TV for the Daily Mail, and is well known as a broadcaster. He lives in London and Suffolk.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0719565219
• ISBN 13: 9780719565212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Eccles David