"In John Burningham's compendium of childhood the well known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and sometimes dark childhood memories. Among them are Michael Palin's first family seaside holiday, Seamus Heaney's recollection of a crashed chocolate van, Donna Tartt's sighting of a humming bird and Benjamin Zephaniah's mischievous exposure of adult hypocrisy. Whether the childhoods are from the war years or later, from the town or the country, ordinary or unbelievable, the book is full of insights into that 'other country', the past. And woven into the mix is a selection of quotation and more than fifty of John Burningham's distinctive drawings."--Jacket.
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