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Timmy the Tug
Jim Downer And Ted Hughes
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Description for Timmy the Tug
Hardcover. Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. This book contains a children's poem that features Timmy who escapes from his moorings. It also features the subsequent adventures on the high seas. Num Pages: 40 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: YBCS. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 203 x 269 x 13. Weight in Grams: 442.
Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames & Hudson is publishing a children’s poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years.Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer’s story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy’s escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas. Downer’s illustrations are a charming focus to this enchanting tale that, besides appealing to children everywhere, is set to be one of the biggest literary events of the year.
Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames & Hudson is publishing a children’s poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years.Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer’s story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy’s escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas. Downer’s illustrations are a charming focus to this enchanting tale that, besides appealing to children everywhere, is set to be one of the biggest literary events of the year.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500514962
SKU
9780500514962
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About Jim Downer And Ted Hughes
Jim Downer is a retired exhibition designer, who conceived and illustrated Timmy the Tug as a young man fresh from art college in Leeds. He has always had a great love of the sea and now lives on the Isle of Wight, England. Ted Hughes (1930–1998) was an English poet and children’s writer. He was the Poet Laureate from 1984 ... Read more
Reviews for Timmy the Tug
'Vigorous, witty and […] free from the temptation of talking down to his readers … there is something too poignant for words about Downer’s childlike delight in these lines and drawings of 1950-something ' - The Times 'T & H have done it beautifully, of course, and the poem is very fresh, as well as fascinating. The illustrations are really ... Read more