The wit and wisdom of thirty sprightly wise old birds collected and illustrated by the author and illustrator of 'Granpa'.
"The worst thing about old age is the speeding up of time . . . I had a party for my fiftieth birthday and another for my sixtieth, three or four years later." Raymond Briggs.
In John Burmingham's well-stocked larder of the fruits of age are contributions from Raymond Briggs, Ivor Cutler, Clare Rayner, Richard Ingrams, Doris Lessing, Patrick Moore, Dervla Murphy, Ronals Searle, Tim Sharpe, Chad Varah, Mary Welsey, and many others on such themes ranging from time, birthdays and travel to love and marriage.
Woven in amongst these pieces is a rich selection of quotes from TS Eliot and Leon Trotsky to Bob Hope and Ogden Nash and fifty witty and poignant drawings by John Burmingham.
