Mr. Bliss
A brand new edition of the long unavailable children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text. Mr. Bliss's first outing in his new motor-car, shared with several friends, bears, dogs,...
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A brand new edition of the long unavailable children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text.
Mr. Bliss's first outing in his new motor-car, shared with several friends, bears, dogs, and a donkey, though not the Girabbit, proves to be unconventional though not inexpensive.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007255337 (0007255330)
Publish date: 2007-10-15
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
A charming, self-illustrated children's story from J. R. R. Tolkien! Funny and quintessentially British, an unexpected treat for children and adult's alike.
Mr. Bliss is delightfully amusing, both the book and the title character himself. He gets himself into a series of farcical scrapes involving his new car, three thuggish teddy bears, four obese brothers, some cabbages and some bananas. Mr. Bliss is a frightful coward throughout, not at all the hero ...