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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: A charming, heartfelt and moving story - a lovely memorial to the author's parents (and a reminder of how short life really is).
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Summary: A Sweet Ode To Briggs' Parents
Review: Ethel and Ernest are two rather ordinary people. They get married around 1930, live together in the same house for 41 years, have a son, and then die the same year. Neither of them does anything more extraordinary than live and love.And that's more than enough. Briggs' story is little more than a series of snippets of conversation and events of a long relationship. We see Ethel and Ernest bond, bicker, and regret. We see the love they have for themselves, and how they adjust over time. There's a great conversation between the two while Ernest is watching the moon landing, and Ethel just doesn't see the big deal of it all. I was greatly surprised when the story was done and I felt real sorrow for the two of them. Briggs' artwork is really moving, and displays the changing of the times on his parents very well. This is a nice, quiet, loving character study about two people who may not have lived an exciting life, but that's probably one of the things that makes this piece of graphic literature work best. Highly recommended to all fans of serious graphic art.
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Summary: This is the way to grasp history
Review: Raymond Briggs turns his fine artistic repetoire to some of the issues that matter most in this precious book. It is precious because it is simply the lives of ordinary people told in pictures and words with more power than a Hollywood blockbuster. Those who love Briggs for the Father Christmas stories will be reminded that this is also the creator of the Tin Pot Foreign General and a domesticated couple facing oblivion in a nuclear war. The messages remain as gentle and as strong as ever.
If you wish to raise your children as literate, peaceful citizens of the world then this book should find its way through your home... pass it on to others... if you can.
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