'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!

◆作者簡介

J.R.R. 托爾金（J.R.R. Tolkien），英國文豪，當代奇幻小說鼻祖。他不僅是牛津大學睿智的教授、四個孩子溫情的老爸，更是全球頂禮膜拜的魔幻文學經典《魔戒》（奧斯卡大贏傢《指環王三部麯》原著小說）《霍比特人》（2012—2015全球大電影《霍比特人》三部麯原著小說）的作者。他的粉絲包括：英國王室、丹麥王室、奧巴馬、J.K. 羅琳，喬治•馬丁，蔡康永，姚晨……其作品係列全球已暢銷2.5億餘冊。

◆ 譯者簡介

多多，大名黃憶慈，英文名Christine Huang，小學四年級，從五歲開始學習英語，愛幻想，喜歡講故事，相信並熱愛聖誕老人，翻譯有《聖誕老爸的來信》和《幸福先生》。

黃磊，演員、導演、編劇、歌手，北京電影學院教師。孫莉的丈夫，多多和妹妹的爸爸，也是多多翻譯《聖誕老爸的來信》和《幸福先生》的中文指導。