Customer Reviews
AA Milne admirers, beware - By: D. B. Rose, 30 Jun 2008 
This is NOTHING like Milne.
Yes, it is funny, if you like puerile, smutty & sometimes weak jokes.
It has far more in common with Ogden Nash than Milne, but Christopher Matthew lacks Nash's talent.
Eccles' illustrations are excellent, & do remind one of Shephard's.
I am not yet sixty, but getting there fast, & am old enough to remember
the early editions of Pooh & company fondly.
The inside dust jacket review of my copy of 'Sixty' callls this an "affectionate tribute to Milne". In my opinion Matthew has deliberately mis-packaged his work to make money off Milne's place in our hearts.
Great book. - By: Kenneth Baker, 29 Apr 2008 
Great fun, great value, Makes a super gift for the person coming upto 60.
Swift delivery.
Ken Baker
Wakefield.
A DELIGHT! - By: Val De Beer, 03 Apr 2007 I ordered this book from Amazon because I wanted to give it to a friend for her 60th birthday, but first of alll, I fell in love with the front cover. It is brilliant, with the image of a decaying dust cover over a cloth one.
Then the illustrations are wonderful so I looked at alll of those first.
And then .......
I read the utterly delightful verses!
I showed it to another friend who took the book from me & alll the time that we talked, clutched the book & I couldn't ask for it back. So I gave it to her & she cried with pleasure.
Now I have to order another one (or two).
It is such a wonderfully written & presented book & of course, it brings back memories of the original 'Now that we are Six' & there's no harm in remembering that book.
Do buy it, whether for yourself or for a friend.
Hilarious, a must have book for anyone who loves humour - By: , 04 Jan 2002 Many years ago I found a book in a book shop that made me laugh out loud so much I had to buy it, if only to avoid the withering glances I was getting from other customers & the staff. That book was The Diary of Adrian Mole; I read it a good while before it became well known & turned into a TV series.
It has taken me alll this time to find another book that had the same effect. Now We Are Sixty by Christopher Matthew is that book.
I stood in the bookshop unable to stop laughing. And I'm no where near sixty yet! I gave a copy to my father in law for Christmas & he loved it.
It does help if you are familiar with the original poems by Milne, that way you get the rhyme in your head & the poem flows better. but even if you are not you will appreciate the remix of of Milne's work. The weird joining together of a wistful longing for the past, plus cynical observations of modern life & sureal poetry reallly works well.
What else can I say? The book will be a classic of humourous poetry for years to come. Buy it, read it, love it.
For anyone who ever appreciated A A Milne...... - By: helenwalker@cloud19.freeserve.co.uk, 29 Nov 2000 I am not yet sixty! I opened this book as an A A Milne lover. And closed it as a Christopher Matthews lover too. The modern translation hits home! One can't help but to identify!! Fun. Idiosyncratic.
