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Title: When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0-525-44445-9 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: December, 1988 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great poems for our smallest bookworms
Comment: Re-reading the poems in this volume takes me back to when I was very young, and fast-forwards to me reading them to my son when he was three or four. A.A. Milne's timeless verses stay with us long after other childhood books have been forgotten. Every child has his or her own favorites; I remember my son especially loved listening to "James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree", "The King's Breakfast" (The King asked the Queen and the Queen asked the Dairymaid: "Could we have some butter for the Royal slice of bread?"), and Emmeline, who slipped off in a snit when someone told her her hands weren't clean. Ernest Shepard's simple pen and ink drawings are a nice compliment to the poems. Reading these poems to your youngsters is sure to be the start (or the continuation) of a family tradition.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect poems for small children
Comment: When I was a little boy, my father would read these poems to me. I still have my heavily-battered copy, and every time I look through it, I am overwhelmed with fond memories. The poems in this book are often very simple, but all are very sweet, and Ernest Shepard's illustrations perfectly complement the poems. Every child should have a copy of this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: poems for childhood remembered
Comment: Forget the smoke-filled coffee shop, the microphone on the podium and the beatnicks huddled around their coffees. The real test of a reader's poetic prowess is A.A. Milne, the living room couch and a handful of kids waiting for your renderings of growling bears and timelessl human characters.
It takes an extraordinary book to capture children's attention on the strength of words alone.
It's not that there are no illustrations here, just that each poem has just one or two small, original ink drawings; delightful, but bowing appropriately to the genius of words that can hold children spellbound. For instance, Milne takes a subject like sidewalks and transforms it into the stuff of playacting in Lines and Squares - an irresistible cadence to chant on a walk (or a lumbering gait):
And the masses of bears
Who wait at the corners all ready to eat the sillies who tread on the lines of the street
And I say to them, "BEARS.....
Just look how I'm walking in ALL of the squares!"
As I read I can now recall the precise inflection and finger-shaking combination from Disobedience that it took to elicit giggles from my sisters and me, now working its comedy on my four-year-old son:
James James SAID to his mother, "Mother", he said, said he;
"You Must Never Go Down To The End Of Town If You Don't Go Down With ME!"
When We Were Very Young is a collection of poems for children, about childhood, and for those who wish to remember its special magic view on the world. This book is a beloved tradition in my family, starting with those cozy evenings on my Grandmother's couch as we all snuggled up to hear about the brownie that lives behind the curtain, Jonathan Jo (who had a mouth like an O), the three foxes and Christopher Robin, who couldn't stop his hoppity hop. Your family is sure to find its own traditions in reading these poems to each other, young and old alike.
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Title: Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0525444467 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The House at Pooh Corner by Alan Alexander Milne, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0525444440 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Winnie-The-Pooh by Ernest H. Shepard, A. A. Milne ISBN: 0140361219 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Child's Garden of Verses by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ISBN: 0517489244 Publisher: Derrydale Pub. Date: 12 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: A Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tasha Tudor ISBN: 0689823827 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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