[ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:43:58 +0100
I'm pretty certain the titles are there or thereabouts Steve. It's not the
sort of alliteration which is easily forgotten.
during one of my stints producing In Touch we did a whole thing about the
history of Bob Morris. The one I remember is Bob Morris and the Hidden Cellar.
Like the Crosher, they were small format books. Apparently the guy who wrote
them wanted to create a role model for blind kids.
OUr word games with dictionaries were less subtle than the ones you describe.
We looked up what were then regarded as "Rude words", chiefly fart and bastard,
both of which seem pretty mild now. But then the stronger ones weren't even
included in day-to-day dictionaries back then.
On 3 Jul 2013, at 07:23, Steven Bingham wrote:
> 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
>
> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 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.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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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