[ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:46:12 +0100
I do have a set of the Bernard Cribbins readings Ian. He has such a good
voice, I will look forward to trying those. I don't recognize any of the other
children's books you mentioned.
Talking about wind in the willows, I remember once having a brilliant BBC
dramatization of the story. If anyone still has a copy hanging round, I'd love
to hear it again. Perhaps they have re-done it, because this was at least 30
years ago.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:28 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
> Shell, I'd suggest listening to the Bernard Cribbins reading mentioned
> previously on this list. Failing that, try the alan Bennett.
> On 2 Jul 2013, at 20:10, Shell wrote:
>
>> 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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