My brother bought my daughter a Hans Andersen fairy stories book illustrated by Edmund du Lac.
He really was a superb illustrator.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:38, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

indeed he was
if you haven't already, get your daughter Just So Stories and read them to her. They are fabulous.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)

I grew up on them shits, yo.
Rikki Tikki Tavi or whatever his name was. Marvellous stuff. I am a huge Kipling fan.

NB anyone thinking of replying using the word 'kippled' - just fucking don't.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)

I strongly believe that those stories are at least partly responsible for the way my mind works

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:43, Reply)

They were fantastic
I also loved Stalky and Co. And Kim. Can't remember who it was who said that Kipling managed the incredible feat of writing about a truly good man and making him interesting
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I have fond memories of my dad reading me Kipling's stuff when I was very young
as well as making up stories about Beowulf.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:54, Reply)

I had problems reading until I was about seven so my dad used to record himself reading
stories so I could listen on a dictaphone when he was away on business.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:55, Reply)

that's awesome

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:05, Reply)

Have you read Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation?
Not a patch on the old Penguin classics one, I think.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:56, Reply)

It's a shit adaptation
or 'interpretation' as I believe he likes to call it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:01, Reply)

'A shitcunt paddy wanker' as I believe I like to call him.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Remarkably apt
To be fair I acknowledge my taste in literature and poetry is pretty stuck in the past.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)

*old-skool fives*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:11, Reply)

...give a dog a bone!

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:51, Reply)

I have not

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:05, Reply)

You are a lucky man.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:12, Reply)

I happen to like it.
It's Norn Iron, innit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:50, Reply)