Post by Bara on Sept 4, 2007 8:03:06 GMT -5
.. another one I am SURE to have mentioned before.. Another one of my mother's favourites. The author is Lilian Timpson.
In fact, she received it as a 10th (?) birthday present, circa 1928. And gave it to me circa 1962..
I lost it in one of the floods and it took Hell's own job to track down another copy, which I did from Winnepeg or Chicago or somewhere far west of me...
Same edition! Same wonderful 'fluffy' paper. I was delighted and it now resides in a waterproof, fireproof box. The only difference/s with this edition and the last is the dedication on the fly-page - but still in the same wonderful cobalt ink-pen - and this copy has one Art Deco 'plate' missing. No problem, I can remember it in detail!
Humpty Dumpty is a foppish tabby-kitten with a pink bow. The bow becomes more and more bedraggled as the story progresses, and his chest becomes pinker and pinker, but as Humpty Dumpty doesn't realise that, his spirits are kept flying.
The Princess is 10 yr-old Hazel. Banished to bed on Christmas Eve, she is allowed one Christmas Cracker (or the 'Heliotrope BonBon' as it is called in the book...) and her big cousin pulls the cracker with her.
From the Bon-Bon, she finds the 'magic telescope'. Standing at her window, with the kitten, Humpty Dumpty sitting on the window-sill, she watches a little silver boat cast away from the moon and set sail for her window....
And then - well, there are Pierrots, Pierrettes, a stolen Star-Baby - There's Hey-Diddle-Diddle (who puts me forcibly in mind of Ivan from Safety Dance), dungeons - oh! You have to find it!
Hazel gets home safely. The Star-Baby is returned to the Queen of the Moon - and Humpty Dumpty becomes an ordinary tabby kitten again...
And on Christmas morning, Hazel is not sure it wasn't all a dream.. Except every night, she can see Hey Diddle Diddle playing his fiddle in the crescent moon - just for her.
Go - find it...
In fact, she received it as a 10th (?) birthday present, circa 1928. And gave it to me circa 1962..
I lost it in one of the floods and it took Hell's own job to track down another copy, which I did from Winnepeg or Chicago or somewhere far west of me...
Same edition! Same wonderful 'fluffy' paper. I was delighted and it now resides in a waterproof, fireproof box. The only difference/s with this edition and the last is the dedication on the fly-page - but still in the same wonderful cobalt ink-pen - and this copy has one Art Deco 'plate' missing. No problem, I can remember it in detail!
Humpty Dumpty is a foppish tabby-kitten with a pink bow. The bow becomes more and more bedraggled as the story progresses, and his chest becomes pinker and pinker, but as Humpty Dumpty doesn't realise that, his spirits are kept flying.
The Princess is 10 yr-old Hazel. Banished to bed on Christmas Eve, she is allowed one Christmas Cracker (or the 'Heliotrope BonBon' as it is called in the book...) and her big cousin pulls the cracker with her.
From the Bon-Bon, she finds the 'magic telescope'. Standing at her window, with the kitten, Humpty Dumpty sitting on the window-sill, she watches a little silver boat cast away from the moon and set sail for her window....
And then - well, there are Pierrots, Pierrettes, a stolen Star-Baby - There's Hey-Diddle-Diddle (who puts me forcibly in mind of Ivan from Safety Dance), dungeons - oh! You have to find it!
Hazel gets home safely. The Star-Baby is returned to the Queen of the Moon - and Humpty Dumpty becomes an ordinary tabby kitten again...
And on Christmas morning, Hazel is not sure it wasn't all a dream.. Except every night, she can see Hey Diddle Diddle playing his fiddle in the crescent moon - just for her.
Go - find it...
