Author(s): P.Harry Mason,Ian J. Standing
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 54
Publisher: The Choir Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2017-12-31
Dimensions: 216 x 216 x 2mm
Publication City/Country: Gloucester, United Kingdom
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Illustrations: 30 black and white line drawings

When I was 10 my aunt gave me Spike Milligan's brilliant Book of Milliganimals for my birthday. I quickly fell in love with the great man's nonsense poems and was soon reciting The Silly Old Baboon, The Gofongo or The Wiggle-Woggle to myself and anyone who'd listen.
Some years later I thought I'd risk writing a poem myself and penned The Man Next Door one rainy afternoon and that was soon followed by Our Beastly Boiler. I don't remember deliberately creating William, but I simply found I enjoyed writing silly poems from the point of view of a well meaning but easily befuddled young lad with a huge imagination.