Do children still read Noel Streatfield?

[shreddies]

I'd love to buy my niece Ballet Shoes, but I wonder if it's very dated. Ditto E Nesbit. She's eight and a half and a big reader but I don't want to buy her something that isn't quite right.

Silly - I forgot to make the link - Castle of Yew is also set in/inspired by LB's own garden.

Shreddies. It was John.

No19 - look here - I will accept such lavish presents as a new slate to write my sums on, a bag of boiled sweets or a handkerchief

shoudl i start a thread for people who have happy memories of reading childrens' books but who are NORMAL?

I did know about Clover.

(No19, Alice is a very excellent name for a DD )

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Printed last year, and in such an obvious place. I have been looking for that book for 15 years at least.

sonic.

I don't know what to say.

You could say that I have too much time on my hands even though I've got an essay due tomorrow and that Amazon is a wonderful thing

Oh it was awful.

Aitch

Frannyandzooey - please don't call your dd Lawrence. Always baffled me, that did - even with the Frence connection!

"Torworthy" is in the "Gemma" books, I think.

Idris - it's only a small step from the Tiernsee to Darkover!

Hello seeker .

How true (am wondering how large my Darkover collection will get - not rivalling the Chalet School one yet, but it is up to 3 now ).

sonic you are a legend.

Any time you post AIBU I will post YANBU. I will support your shopping choices, put you on Lists, regard you as an Elder and laugh at all your jokes.

I have ordered it!!!

Torworthy was where the Yeos lived, in the Gemma books.

Am beginning to think Aitch has a point...

RE Anne of Green Gables earlier - I MUCH preferred Emily of New Moon, much poncier and less worthy, I felt.
Chalet School still my all-time faves though .

I adored and collected the Chalet School, and still snap them up when I see one I never read, but when you reread them they are EXCRUCIATING.

Language, snobbery, thinness of plot, repetition & steretypes in the character. (Don't get me wrong, I love them.)

I read Clover when I was a child, but it wasn't a patch on the Katy books, sadly. To the extent that I remember almost nothing.

Aitch, I loved the Chalet School too but I tried reading one to dd and couldn't get past the first few pages, sadly.

Oh, cross posted, No19

Meandmymonkey get your Clover at Amazon for six quid.

I have to go to bed - up at 5 tomorrow - hope to see more vintage yoof lit threads.

Zackly, Tamum. To read aloud they would be 100 x worse.

OK, I shouldn't have been thinking about this all evening but Shreddies - your post of 21:27:05 - its Great Uncle Matthew isn't it ?

I too had a Great Uncle Maurice (who sadly died a couple of weeks ago) and I've been sitting here thinking 'I hadn't realised that he was a G U Maurice and I've just had a realisation that it was G U Matthew'. Or am I delusional ???

I'm sure reading them aloud would be a little painful.

Can't imagine having any I hadn't read though . Although probably haven't read all of the CS books unabridged.

I was thinking surely it was Great Uncle Matthew too, but then I wondered if I was getting muddled up with Anne of Green Gables. I fear I may be overanalysing.

It was Great Uncle Matthew (but known as GUM, so Shreddie's Great Uncle Maurice could also have been GUM too I suppose).

Hmmm... maybe you're right Tamum.... I'll go and research...

Thanks all good advice all round, you're all bricks! - I totally agree anne of gg was a prig btw, but still made a big impression on me at the time. As did Polyanna.
Will get my coat and get onto ebay pronto.

Matthew was in Anne of Green Gables (but not a Great Uncle).

Oh yes, it was Matthew (-and-Marilla) in Anne of GG - and GUMatthew in Ballet Shoes.

Hadn't realised there were so many Matthews around at the time