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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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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> 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.
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> From: Shell
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> 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"
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:38 AM
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> 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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