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Timmy the Tug

Timmy the Tug

by Ted Hughes (Author), Jim Downer (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

    $3.25
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 40
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 21 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 0500514968
ISBN 13: 9780500514962
Book Overview: An exact facsimile of a recently discovered Ted Hughes poem for children, lost for over 50 years, with Hughes's typewritten manuscript and his friend Jim Downer's enchanting watercolour illustrations

Media Reviews
'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 sensationally good I think - not just because they're so evocative of their time' - Andrew Motion
'Hughes has a wonderful flair for witty, child-friendly doggerel and demands to be read aloud again and again' - Saga Magazine
Author Bio
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 until his death in 1998, and is routinely ranked as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes published many books and poems for children, including The Iron Man, The Iron Woman and How the Whale Became.