In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs
contemplates old age and death... and doesn't like them much.
Illustrated with Briggs's inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights
Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some melancholy, some
remembering his wife who died young, others about the joy of
grandchildren, of walking the dog...
He looks back at his
schooldays and his time as an evacuee during the war, and remembers his
parents and the house in which he grew up. But most, like this one, are
about his home in Sussex: Looking round this house,What will they say,
The future ghosts? There must have been Some barmy old bloke
here,Long-haired, artsy-fartsy type, Did pictures for kiddy books Or
some such tripe. You should have seen the stuff He stuck up in that
attic! Snowman this and snowman that,Tons and tons of tat.
Hardback version.
Time for Lights Out - Raymond Briggs
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