[ebooktalk] Re: family reading.
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:06:43 +1000
Hello Trish,
I've only read one Moomin Troll book, as well as having it read to us at
school, and adored it.
We still talk in Bingumy and Thob and you "Milly Old Souse" as an insult!
(Worth reading, one and all, if you haven't; it leaves so much to the
imagination.)
Elaine
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Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 7:00 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: family reading.
I loved "Playing Beatie Bow", more of a young adult read than a children's
book, I think, but it's one of those books that really stays in your memory
- well, my memory anyway. Like Elaine, I didn't discover the borrowers
until my twenties and enjoyed them then. I re-read the first moomin troll
book at about the same time. It was read to me as a child and I had found
it rather scarey, but I enjoyed it second time round much more.
Trish.
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[mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elaine Harris
(Rivendell)
Sent: 01 May 2013 01:53
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: family reading.
I loved "Little Women" at school but don't know what I would think of it
now.
Geraldine Brooks found Marmee altogether too sweet which is at least partly
why she wrote "March".
I have been re-reading some of the L. M. Montgomery Anne books and adoring
them, especially as she grows up.
Like the best children's books, including the Harry Potter series, they are
written on several levels and accessible to adults perhaps sometimes for
different reasons.
I re-read "101 Dalmatians" last year, too. I still love the Narnia books and
didn't read any of "The Borrowers" series, (Mary Norton, I think), until
well in to my twenties.
The list of classics is long if not endless.
One Australian classic I would recommend is "Playing Beatie Bow" by Ruth
Park, who was by birth a New Zealander.
Elaine
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Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 2:28 AM
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Hi Trish
I absolutely hated "Little Women" when I was at school. A few years ago I
listened to some of the dramatisation and realised why.
Have you read "A Spoonful of Jam" by Michelle Magorian? It is about a young
girl and her family just after the war. I love it, and it is wonderfully
read for Calibre by Terence Hardiman, who can do very little wrong in my
opinion.
Pele
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