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Poems to Love: Told to me by my mother, Kate Bird-Whewell & a kindly Teacher, in the 1940s edited by Josephine Whewell-Juden

UK price: £6.99     US price: $10.79 Format: Paperback Size : 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm Pages: 74 ISBN: 978-1907294105 Published: Nov-2009

 

Book Description

"This volume brings together a few poems that many of us have loved, especially while growing up. Some are memories of growing up in Liverpool during the Second World War. I remember mother gathering all of us brothers and sisters together and hurrying us to the shelter when the sirens went off. Mother would keep us all cheerful by reading poems and stories. Because of the war, along with all the other shortages, teachers were scarce. We learnt by rote but they also taught us poetry we loved to recite.  When my father Henry Whewell came out of the army we all used to gather around the fire in the winter and he would tell us ghost stories and tales about lions and tigers and other wild animals that lived in the jungle. ‘The Tiger’ by William Blake reminds me of them. Mother used to say, ‘Don’t frighten the children before they go to bed’. I am sure that the poems collected here will bring back memories for many, or be the means of enchanting new readers who might read them for the fist time.”—Josephine Juden.

Illustrations by Laura Martin. Find her artwork and photography at www.caelitha.deviantart.com

About the author

Mrs Josephine Juden, nee Whewell, was born in Liverpool, one of eight children. She worked in hotels in Grange-over-Sands and Hope in Derbyshire, and later in London doing accounts and typing. After emigrating with her sister Catherine to Greenwich, Connecticut in the United States where she took care of eight American children, she returned to London, where she met and married her husband Norman, eventually moving to Bournemouth.