cover image Now We Are Sixty: 3

Now We Are Sixty: 3

Christopher Matthew. Viking Books, $15 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03047-7

In Now We Are Sixty, English humorist Christopher Matthew (Diary of a Somebody) rewrites A.A. Milne's cherished childhood rhymes to describe middle-age spread, ""Saloon Bar Romeos,"" inflation, pensions, tabloid scandals and cell phones: ""They're changing sex at Buckingham Palace,"" and so on. David Eccles supplies lovely cartoons faithful to Ernest Shepard's originals. The volume has sold by the wagonload in Britain (where it appeared in 2001); some jokes may not cross the Atlantic (""What is the matter with Radio Four?"") but many of them will. (Oct.)