When We Were Very Young
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Just Before We Begin
4:21 -
Corner-Of-The-Street
1:03 -
Buckingham Palace
1:41 -
Happiness
0:34 -
The Christening
0:56 -
Puppy and I
1:55 -
Twinkletoes
0:39 -
The Four Friends
1:38 -
Lines and Squares
1:18 -
Brownie
0:51 -
Independence
0:46 -
Nursery Chairs
2:14 -
Market Square
2:24 -
Daffodowndilly
0:39 -
Water-Lilies
1:13 -
Disobedience
2:29 -
Spring Morning
1:45 -
The Island
1:52 -
The Three Foxes
1:42 -
Politeness
0:47 -
Jonathan Jo
1:02 -
At the Zoo
1:27 -
Rice Pudding
1:32 -
Missing
1:18 -
The King's Breakfast
2:42 -
Hoppity
0:44 -
At Home
0:52 -
The Wrong House
1:23 -
Summer Afternoon
0:52 -
The Dormouse and the Doctor
4:15 -
Shoes and Stockings
1:18 -
Sand-Between-The-Toes
1:43 -
Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy-Blue
1:21 -
Knights and Ladies
2:20 -
The Mirror
0:54 -
Halfway Down
0:56 -
The Invaders
1:33 -
Before Tea
1:12 -
Teddy Bear
5:48 -
Bad Sir Brian Botany
3:19 -
In the Fashion
1:10 -
The Alchemist
1:32 -
Growing Up
1:01 -
If I Were King
1:13 -
Vespers
2:00
When We Were Very Young (1924) is a public domain work.
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About this book
London pavements, a palace guard and a small brown mouse become occasions for verse in A. A. Milne's 1924 collection. Christopher Robin visits Buckingham Palace with Alice, while other children name a dormouse, follow a puppy or step between the shadows beneath an apple tree. Milne lets the speakers sound by turns certain, puzzled and absorbed in play. His introduction leaves their identities open, suggesting that a poem might belong to Christopher Robin, another child or the elusive Hoo.
The poems turn ordinary preferences into little dramas: a king's wish for butter passes through a queen, a dairymaid and a cow, while Christopher Robin insists that hopping is necessary for getting anywhere. Repeated phrases and shifting rhythms make these pieces suited to reading aloud. Children can enjoy the animals and comic exchanges; adults can notice how closely Milne follows the private rules and strong feelings of childhood.
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- A. A. Milne
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
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- Audio read by
- AnnaLisa Bodtker