[ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:18:18 +0100
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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