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Voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's "Bookworm," this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells." Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
| ISBN | 0285634119 | | Pages | 32 | | ISBN13 | 9780285634114
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Souvenir Press Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 107 | | Imprint | Souvenir Press Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 114 | | Publication date | 06 Nov 1997 | | Width (mm) | 157 | | Illustrator | Pythia Ashton- Jewell | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | DEWEY | 821.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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