Review:- Joan POWERS (Ed.) - "Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book"

Year Published: - 1997
Where the book was from:- My own copy
ISBN: - 0 416 19420 6
Pages: - 35 pp
Genre: - Humour
Location:- The Hundred Acre Wood (Five Hundred Acre Wood; in Ashdown Forest)
How I came across it: - I cannot recall
Rating: - ***** *****

One sentence summary:- Good things come in small packages and these 35 pages are some that I come back to time and again since I got it years ago; I love Eeyore and the choice of quotations from A.A.Milne and of the illustrations byE.H.Shepherd is excellent.


General comments:- A set of cynical comments from one of children's fiction's most loveable characters. A perfect little gift book for the pessimist in your life. , Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book is the very thing for those who see the glass as half-empty. In his lugubrious style, Eeyore offers wisdom of a gloomy nature on subjects ranging from food and friendship to what to do when one's tail is missing. Line drawings throughout.

Quotations:-
I could quote the whole book, it is so delightful!
“This writing business – pencils and what-not – is overrated. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

AUTHOR Notes:- Joan Powers is also the author of Henny Penny (a read along with me book).

Children’s Books

I was sorting out some children’s books to give to the charity shop and I thought – “Why not review them?” So I’ve done some comments on a few children’s books. I won’t count them towards my number of books read this year – it hardly seems fair!


Shigeo Watanabe – I’m Having a Bath with Papa!
Illustrated by Yasuo Ohtomo
ISBN 0 370 30743 7 Bodley Head 1986
Hardback 22 pages
Delightfully simple illustrations make this story about Little Bear (one of nine in the series) a fun and happy picture book for early readers or for reading to a pre-school child. I’m almost tempted to have the picture of Papa and Little Bear reading up on my wall...
No longer in print there are a few second-hand copies to be found on the web.


A. A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh 1 2 3
Illustrated by E H Shepard
Hardcover: 12 pages
Publisher: Dean 1997
ISBN: 978-0603560699
I cannot resist Winnie-the-Pooh. This is a simple board counting book from one to twenty.


There is a matching ABC with equally delightful Shepard illustrations.


William Geldard – The Day the Clocks Stopped
Illustrated by Jolyne Knox
Publ: Readers Digest First Library Series
1980, reprinted 1994
ASIN: B000U70D28
60 pages. The text varies from one to four sentences per double page spread. Although this is ‘A First Book of Time’ but it isn’t a major teaching aid for time despite its enjoyable story and beautiful illustrations.