by Charles Kingsley
bookshelves: re-read, winter20092010, published-1863, adventure, britain-england, fantasy, fraudio, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, victorian Read in January, 1962 ** spoiler alert ** It's a toss up whether I read this or What Katy Did as my first ever read.to.myself.but.not.for.school book. It ...
I loved, loved this book as a child and gave to my daughter when she was little. She grew up to be an artist and told me that the strange intriguingly illustrated world of this book was one of her influences. Below are some images from the book:
I could only take about 70% of this, and am actually amazed that I made it that far. The author is prejudiced (against the Irish and the Americans) and extremely condescending. I did like the background info that the author was a Preacher who wrote this in support of Darwin. So I guess he gets pr...
I have such fond memories of this book from childhood, that I thought I would take the chance to re-read it. There are horrible bits in it that I obviously didn't pick up on when I was a child, but other than that, it was as good as I remember.Some of the sentences are very long, and the words used ...
It's a toss up whether I read this or What Katy Did as my first ever read.to.myself.but.not.for.school book. It was a cloth covered book that belonged to maternal grandmother who had died before I was born, and I remember trying to draw the sweep in black wax crayon on the inside of the front cover ...
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