Immaginatevi una vita con piccole e grandi soddisfazioni (una vasca da bagno tutta per loro, un giardino, un figlio che si diploma) e con piccole e grandi paure (il figlio che si iscrive alla scuola d’arte - che futuro potrà mai avere? Ernest, five years younger, is an easygoing milkman with socialist ideals and an enthusiastic interest in current affairs and the latest technology. Lewis Carroll was certain rough on children, and the tradition carries on in such books as Neil Gaiman's Coraline on in the film Nanny McPhee, where children visiting their undertaker father at work never seem to mind the corpse on the table. As economic and political climates change and war comes and goes it becomes clear that they each have their own peculiar wisdom and short-sightedness, and to see the world through their eyes and their bickering is a delight. It captures vividly the ageing of loved ones, their loss and the resulting unfillable void for those left behind.

Seeing the world change in oh so many ways, making the best of everything, sticking together for better and for worse. The absence of the author from the pages is intriguing to me, the way he keeps himself very peripheral to his own story and really focused in on his parents, their particular way of moving through time, working, delighting, worrying, arguing and making up. Although they have differing political views and many marital squabbles, they obviously deeply care for each other. Apparently, the author's parents were already up in age when they met and married and his mom was only able to have one child or run the risk of dying if she were to attempt to have more children.

We specialise in hard to find and international magazine titles including Apartamento, L'Étiquette, Popeye and Gentlewoman along with a range of fiction and non-fiction books from a wide range of independent publishers. Briggs’s illustrations are full of humor, marvelous detail, and obvious love for the people who inspired the title characters. Es como esos álbumes de fotos antiguas en que ves a tu padre y a tu madre tan jóvenes y guapos, y se te pone un nudo en la garganta. Ethel and Ernest also struck a chord with my twelve year old grandson who was captivated and moved by this unfolding of mundane but unforgettable lives as opposed to his usual diet of super heroes, time lords or teenage wizards.

This graphic novel for adults covers the lives of Raymond Briggs parents from when they first met to their deaths. It tells the story of the lives of Briggs' parents from their first meeting in 1928 to their deaths in 1971. The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a Panorama documentary on nuclear contingency planning, and the dense format of the page was inspired by a Swiss publisher's miniature version of Father Christmas.This book was turned into a two-handed radio play with Peter Sallis in the male lead role, and subsequently an animated film, featuring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft. There is something very powerful about the simple text, mixed with a large dose of humour between the husband and wife, coupled with images that make the experience of reading this book into something very special. Full of the ordinariness of ordinary lives, even if extraordinary times are happening around them, but this ordinariness is suffused with love and heart and truth. The book is a piece of social history; we see the dark days of the Second World War, the birth of the Welfare State, the advent of television and all the changes which were so exhilarating and bewildering for Ethel and Ernest. También me hubiese encantado que las páginas fuesen más grandes para poderme sumergir aún más en los dibujos: para notar mejor el tacto de la moqueta, la rugosidad del papel de pared, el calor de la chimenea de ladrillo, el silbido de la tetera.

Beginning with Ethel working as a lady's maid and Ernest passing her house as a milkman we see the couple fall in love, marry and begin their lives together. I think Raymond's relationship with his parents was perhaps not an easy one although he clearly loves them. They survive the depression of the 30s, World War II and the havoc it wreaks on Londoners, the economic downturn and rationing that follows, and the "love generation" of the 60s. Al principio me estaba pareciendo una historia corriente, pero gana muchísimo en su segunda mitad; con la II Guerra Mundial terminada, ha logrado hacerme reír mucho, a carcajadas en algunos momentos, y eso en un libro y en mi caso es poco corriente. Ethel and Ernest is probably his most personal work, telling as it does, the life of his parents from the.As Raymond grows up, he gets admitted into Grammar school which is exciting for his parents because they didn't have a proper education and then get disappointed when he wants to attend art school. It's a very personal, heartfelt story of the lives of an ordinary British couple during the years 1920-1970.