'Owes a little to Beatrix Potter in its ironical humour and to Edward Lear in the style of its drawings, though Tolkien's approach is less grotesque and more delicate than Lear's.' Humphrey Carpenter 'A celebration, in the spirit of The Wind in the Willows, of a vanished, vulgar England where everybody did -- and spoke -- exactly as he pleased, and life was consequently a series of amiable abrupt collisions, feebly refereed by the police in the shape of Sergeant Boffin. Although the book ought to feel dated, ! dating has done little harm to Tom Kitten or Mr Badger, and there seems no reason why it should here.' T.A. Shippey, TLS

A brand new edition of the long unavailable children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from Father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The story is reproduced here exactly as he created it -- handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters. Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss's style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. As for what happened next -- the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves. Thankfully all ended well, and even the yellow motor car with red wheels (to which Mr Bliss has taken an understandable and great dislike), came in useful at the end!

◆作者简介

J.R.R. 托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien），英国文豪，当代奇幻小说鼻祖。他不仅是牛津大学睿智的教授、四个孩子温情的老爸，更是全球顶礼膜拜的魔幻文学经典《魔戒》（奥斯卡大赢家《指环王三部曲》原著小说）《霍比特人》（2012—2015全球大电影《霍比特人》三部曲原著小说）的作者。他的粉丝包括：英国王室、丹麦王室、奥巴马、J.K. 罗琳，乔治•马丁，蔡康永，姚晨……其作品系列全球已畅销2.5亿余册。

◆ 译者简介

多多，大名黄忆慈，英文名Christine Huang，小学四年级，从五岁开始学习英语，爱幻想，喜欢讲故事，相信并热爱圣诞老人，翻译有《圣诞老爸的来信》和《幸福先生》。

黄磊，演员、导演、编剧、歌手，北京电影学院教师。孙莉的丈夫，多多和妹妹的爸爸，也是多多翻译《圣诞老爸的来信》和《幸福先生》的中文指导。