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When we were very young / A. A. Milne ; with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.3.M6354 Wh 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, English.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton Children's Books, [1988]
- Summary:
- A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Copyright renewed: 1952.
- Redesigned in 1988.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Milne, A.A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956. When we were very young.
- ISBN:
- 0525444459
- 9780525444459
- 9780140361230
- 0140361235
- 9780525479307
- 0525479309
- OCLC:
- 19142474
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