[ebooktalk] Re: Dictionary and readers.
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:31:33 +0100
Yes, I remember starting reading with "The Gay Way Series", beginning with "The
Tin Pot House", and pretty boring they were! As far as I can remember the
stories in "The Gay Way series 1" were all more or less the same - about big
red lorry, Jip the cat, Meg the hen and all the rest. Then in the next "Gay
Way" series we moved on to read about "Big boy Ken" and "Little Girl Pat". The
books were typical of their day in stereotyping the two, big boy Ken was strong
and adventurous, little girl Pat looked on in admiration.Progressing to the
"Jolly Steps for Tiny Folk" was much more interesting, the books were real
stories about animals.
Trish.
----- Original Message -----
From: Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:22 AM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Dictionary and readers.
Steve,
I still have my 16 volume Little Oxford Dictionary, actually here in my
study. It saw me through university and I can't bear to part with it.
I remember the gay Way series though not much of content and for years had
one of the Wide Ranger books which for some reason was given to me and which I
re-read endlessly as I had few books at home at the time. I also remember the
Rhyme and Rhythm poetry collection.
(Hadn't thought of any of them in years.)
Elaine
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On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2013 4:24 PM
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
Hi Ian
Yes, I remember the How Things Are Made but cannot remember the individual
titles - neither of your suggests sound right though.
I remember that many of us got the children's encyclopedia called Look and
Learn. I think it was in 7 volumes but it was wonderful we had never had access
to so much information about different things before.
Later we gained access to a copy of the 16 volumes of the Little Oxford
Dictionary and had hours of fun eventing word games. I particularly remember
the insult game where you said that someone was a vol 10, page 82 word 4. You
then had to look up the word to find out what you were. It got rather spoilt
when people started looking up the word first!
I think we learned to read using something called the Gay Way series (I don't
suppose anyone would dare now). I can't remember much about these.
One of hour teacher's had written a series of books about a blind boy called
Bob Morris and these I know were published by the RNIB. They had a wartime
setting and included titles such as Bob Morris and the Hidden Code (it turned
out to be braille - Bob was particularly worried by the use of the number seven
which of course was used for a space.
There is more but I'll save it for later perhaps.
Steve
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On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 02 July 2013 21:35
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
I've been remembering some books from blind school. there was a couple in a
series called, I think, how things are made. The titles were Bread Books and
Bacon and Brass Boots and Bricks? Anyone else remember these? Then there were
the G R Crosher series. Island Adventure, House On fire, etc. Anyone else
remember these?
On 2 Jul 2013, at 21:18, Shell wrote:
I'm so glad that someone else knows these books. I can still remember the
thrill of getting the next one, but strangely I had forgotten there was a blind
character in them, possibly because blindness was of no significance to me at
the time. I might just be brave and read one again.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:01 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
> Shell, Elaine introduced me to the "Green Knowe" books when I was visiting
her. We read "Children of Green Knowe" while I was over there, and later, she
sent me "The Chimneys Of Green Knowe", one of whose main characters is a blind
girl. She's one of the most plausible and least sentimental blind characters
I've come across in a book - she doesn't play the piano, she doesn't feel
faces, and she doesn't even get her sight back at the end of the book.
>
> I somehow missed "The Secret Garden" in childhood, and, probably for that
reason, have never been enamoured of it since.
>
> Trish.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shell
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 8:10 PM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Going back to children's books.
>
>
> Hi Clare,
> I have to admit to never having read or listened to any Winnie-the-Pooh. I
don't know how it passed me by as I've been an avid reader since I could lift a
book up on my own. I have lots of favorite children's books and the secret
garden was one of those. I'm afraid to go back and read them now, as I'm sure I
wouldn't like many. I remember being totally besotted with a series of books,
each one was called the something of Green Knowe, a different word for each
book, but all set in this place called Green Knowe. I thought they were the
most amazing books and another series about a boy who had a belt and in each
book he had to collect another magic stone to go on his belt. They may have
been set in Wales, or the boy might have been Welsh. I can't think what they
were called now or who the author was. I had a large set of Ladybird books
too, did anyone else read these? One was called Piggy Plays Truent and was
very special to me. I don't have any of them any more, which is really sad.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:38 AM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Books of My Life
>
> > I felt daunted by this, and wasn't going to do it, but the books have
> > gradually plopped into my mind, so they are probably the right ones.
> > 1. A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, or the House at Pooh Corner, or either
of
> > the books of Pooh poetry. These were such a huge part of my childhood
and my
> > daughters' childhood that one of them has to be there. I don't generally
do
> > animals, but these are different, and really funny. You have all
persuaded
> > me that I should read Watership Down too. I read a very compelling novel
by
> > Adams called the Girl in the Swing, and have always meant to return to
him.
> > Another children's possibility from my early childhood and motherhood
was
> > the Secret Garden.
> > 2. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. I love Jane and adore Rochester, and
this is
> > one of a very few books which I re-read from time to time, and one of
very
> > few 19th-century books with which, I'm afraid, I don't struggle. Another
is
> > the Woman in White.
> >
> > 3. 3. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter. This is really a trilogy,
and
> > again is not likely reading for me, being historical. I have not yet
felt
> > equal to Wolf Hall etc, but this one is mediaeval and really took hold
of
> > me. Not only is the period beautifully drawn, but Kristin is a woman who
> > could live today, though the book was written in the thirties.
> > 4. the Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters. These letters were exchanged over
about
> > ten years between the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis and his old Eton
> > housemaster, George Lyttelton, father of Humphrey. I include them
because
> > they are full of book interest and I can date a huge rise in the pitch
of my
> > voraciousness as a reader from my reading of this series of six
collections
> > of the letters from Calibre.
> > 5. Piers Paul Read: Alive. I will have mentioned this as I read it
earlier
> > this year. It concerns the survival and rescue of the members of a
Uruguayan
> > Rugby team whose plane crashed in a remote part of the Andes. I don't
often
> > do endurance books, but I'm eternally glad that we were given this book
and
> > someone asked me to hurry it up the scanning pile. So I was wrong, not
one
> > but two non-fiction. Clare
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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