Despite being a great fan of The Snowman, and his hilarious Father Christmas book, I only recently ordered Ethel and Ernest - the story of his parents from the time they met in 1928 until their deaths in the early 70s, taking in WW2 and of course aspects of his childhood.
In his inimitable cartoon-strip style, it’s an often funny, but evidently loving and very moving account.
Has anyone else read it?
I noticed just yesterday after a quick flick through Father Christmas again, that the registration plate on the milkman’s van on one of the last pages of FC, consists of his father’s initials and the year of his birth - his father was a milkman.
It won the British Book Award for the Illustrated Book of the Year.
I dare say this sort of book is not everyone’s cup of tea but I absolutely love it.
There’s apparently an animated film of it, but I haven’t seen it yet and maybe won’t, in case it disappoints.
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