Research Catalog

Title

When we were very young, by A. A. Milne.

Author

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956

Publication

[New York] E. P. Dutton & Co. [1924]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

xii p., 1 ℓ., 100 p. incl. front., illus.; 20 cm.

Summary

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• English poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Echo verse
• Poésie.

Note

• Verses for children.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Corner of the street -- Buckingham Palace -- Happiness _- The christening -- Puppy and I -- Twinkletoes -- The four friends -- Lines and squares -- Brownie -- Independence -- Nursery chairs -- Market square -- Daffodowndilly -- Water-lilies -- Disobedience -- Spring morning -- The island -- The three foxes -- Politeness -- Jonathan Jo -- At the zoo -- Rice pudding -- Missing -- The king's breakfast -- Hoppity -- At home -- The wrong house -- Summer afternoon -- The dormouse and the doctor -- Shoes and stockings -- Sand between the toes -- Knights and ladies -- Little Bo-peep and Little Boy Blue -- The mirror -- Halfway down -- The invaders -- Before tea -- Teddy Bear -- Bad Sir Brian Botany -- In the fashion -- The alchemist -- Growing up -- If I were king -- Vespers.

LCCN

^^^24029102^

OCLC

• 4243035
• SCSB-11391660

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library