Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOOK OF SIMON-A. S. M. Hutch- inson-Little, Brown...
Writers are often human, often have children; but not often have they immortalized their own children by writing about them. Two glistering exceptions are Alan Alexander Milne and Arthur Stuart Menteth (If Winter Comes) Hutchinson. Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The Book of Simon Author Hutchinson tells you all there is to know about his son, from the age of 17 months to nearly three years. It is an affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands...
...long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with ugliness, cumbered with useless lumber, strewn with outworn hopes, clouded with disappointments and with sorrows, rusty with neglected opportunities, creaking with dismal hopeless habits. And then imagine the little lustrous honeycomb of cells of pearly pearly white that my son Simon...
...book is written for grownups, but it may embarrass parents as well as bachelors. Many a father may feel as tenderly toward his children as Father Hutchinson writes of Simon, but few would attempt to expose such a feeling in print. Some may even resent Parent Hutchinson's performance. Rebecca West, writing last fortnight in the Outlook & Independent, grew caustic at The Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about...
...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...