I grew up with this book, coloring in the margins before I could read. Still I delighted in the rhymes and later read them over and over. I now have a different copy of this wonderful collection of poems, but I treasure it as much as the original. If you can get ahold of a copy for yourself, you'll never let it go!

I stumbled accross this book in the library of a high-school (when I was in about grade 10 -- not so long ago). A few years after I graduated, I realized I was smitten by the charmingly antiquated poems and I knew that I had to get a copy. I found some copies for sale on the internet, ranging up to $500.00 US for a copy! I even called rare book shops, and the nose-in-the-air shopkeeps had the nerve to scoff. I eventually got my friend to get his sister to bribe the librarian to get it for me. Who's laughing now? It is a first printing, and it was bought by the high-school in 1963 for $3.00! I read it at least once a month. I can't believe how little popularity this book has gained, considering the prescience of the writing. Oh well. I love it, and I share it with others who appreciate it: "Divide command and court disaster / Pollux says, and so says Castor" If you ever see a copy, snatch it up. It's valuable as a collector's item, but priceless as a memento.

I'm another who was raised on Fredrick Winsor's delightful pastiche of old nursery verse, modern (well, 1950s) society, and science fictional ideas. I enjoyed them when young, and -- as with 1066 AND ALL THAT -- enjoyed them even more as I grew older and learned more of what the poems were talking about. This volumecomtains verses I cannot imagine living a full life without having read, from "Probable-Possible, My Black Hen" to "Spin Along in Spacial Night", and from "The Hydrogen Dog and the Cobalt Cat" to "The Theory that Jack Built" (a sicentific cautionary tale my father posted outside his professorial office for the edification of new graduate students).