When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition)
Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin. It is for "very small children (and for their elders who get a surreptitious joy from what is meant for their little ones)."" -- Sunday Review, 1924
Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin. It is for "very small children (and for their elders who get a surreptitious joy from what is meant for their little ones)."" -- Sunday Review, 1924
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525444459 (0525444459)
ASIN: 0525444459
Publish date: 1988-10-31
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Juvenile,
Childrens Classics,
Poetry,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Fiction
I'm not sure what it says about me that I don't really like any poetry written in the last fifty years. But it is no doubt some kind of meaningful that I have always loved Milne. *** Now I read it and think about a soldier coming back from WWI and choosing to immerse himself in domestic life, writin...
Not at all my sort of poetry and even less the sort I would have liked as a young child. entirely skippable. I do still like Shepard's illustrations though.
I'm not sure what it says about me that I don't really like any poetry written in the last fifty years. But it is no doubt some kind of meaningful that I have always loved Milne.
For people who missed Private Eye's obituary poem a couple of decades ago:Seventy-seven, shorn of his locksChristopher Robin beds down in a boxNo need to whisper, we've got past that stageChristopher Robin has died of old age
7 years ago
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