Bobby Brewster was a pleasant but unremarkable pre-teenager whose taste for sardine sandwiches and mildly magical goings-on were chronicled in various charming collections for children from 1949 until 1988, the year of Todd’s death. This was my favourite as a child, in which Bobby receives a watch for his birthday and discovers he can turn back time to relive the big day, naturally with unforeseen results. By chance (or perhaps not), it was also the story Todd read out during an author visit to the London primary school class which included my father.
First published in Bobby Brewster, Brockhampton Press, 1954
A Personal Anthology 