When We Were Young

Beautifully produced with fifty original illustrations by the much loved children's author/illustrator and the compiler of The Time of Your Life A royalty on each copy sold will be donated to UNICEF The Time of Your Life has sold over 14,000 in paperback so far

In author's compendium of childhood, the well known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and occasionally dark childhood memories. It is full of evocative memories and woven into the mix is a selection of quotations and fifty more of his witty and poignant drawings.In John Burningham's enchanting and truthful compendium of childhood, the well known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and occasionally dark childhood memories. From Michael Palin's memory of seaside holidays with his dad and Seamus Heaney's evocation of a crashed Cadbury's chocolate van ('a trail of silver papers up the road') to the institutional upbringing of the mixed-race child of a black GI in the 1950s and a typical rural childhood in the Scottish highlands, it is full of evocative memories. And woven into the mix is a rich selection of quotations and fifty more of John Burningham's witty and poignant drawings.