Burning calabrese I think I'm burning calabrese I really think so - 10 / 10 thread

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yes, 100, you are quite 'with it' and 'hip'

I is jivin with the fish, Pointy, innit.

can any of you help me with Unconditional Parenting please. I need a list

My Naught Little Sister
Olga Da Polga (sp)
What Katy Did

Raisins

I did get an apple out of the fridge but I took the sticker off then put it away again.

I'm only with it because it proved suprisingly difficult to tell ds's at 8 that they would love The Little House on The Prairie. Though I did make ds1 read The Secret Garden, well some of it.

ds2 has started reading the boy in the striped pyjamas. This isn't going to end well is it?

Oooh Michael Morpurgo LR! Tom's Sausage Lion, the Butterfly Lion, Kenzuke's Kingdom, Private Peaceful. ds2 and I kept crying when reading some of them, so I've half read a few.

lol 100

You is down wiv the hamsters

(I do find a lot of morpurgo quite tiresome. I know it's not the done thing to admit to it)

I quite like his seriousness and he's quite demanding about his storytelling I find, which is refreshing tbh. Though I also know exactly what you mean.

I like a couple of his books (not that I've read them all, natch) but I find him the sort of author adults swoon over and children find a bit dull

Yes, teachers swoon too don't they?

DS2 likes him, ds1 thought him dreadfully dull.

I like how his stories don't end right, and there aren't always happy endings, and are often dreadfully sad. I am all for healthy dollops of sadness in children's books. ds2 and I read Born to Run, and we both had this dragging feeling just knowing how it might end up.

I like how he takes stories so seriously though, and doesn't try to win them round with daft puns and wackiness or gothic houses or magic. Probably all that I like, is what ds1 found dull though.

yes, a lot of teachers swoon.

We went to see him at a literary festival. And he was grumpy and good and when they asked 'how did you get your ideas?' he didn't sigh and say something trite, but he explained the whole process - he was v. clever at suggesting to them how they might form a story from seeing a picture or a photograph. It was all contrived, but it was really good on curiosity and asking questions and taking leaps of imagination. He made it v. concrete. I'd never heard anyone do that before. Was clever.

You have all talked FAR too much. If anything important has ben said please can somebody summarise. I am BUSY and will be up LATE and tomorrow will be AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH.

Oh I know he's a Proper Author and is good. I loved Mr Nody's Eyes and The Shangri La. I've never heard him speak. It's just that dullness with some of them. Hard going

Oh TooT

We have just been wittering about hamsters, carbs and books for 8 year olds.

Oh FK I remember LOVING children of Green knowe.
Worst Witch stories?
dd1 is loving Clarice Bean atm, and Paddington books surprisingly, she lols at them.

Ooh riveting stuff then

The Grk books are very good.

Yes, ds's both loved Paddington. I don't think dd could read them yet. She is currently reading The Girls Guide on How To Be Good at Everything

Tonight she and I learnt some yoga moves, decided whether we should wear 'warm' or 'cold' colours and also how to make a badge from a crisp packet. One more

I am going to read my book now. Is called The American Wife - is v. v. good am enjoying v. much.

grk, yes, good

ah thanks chaps
i think the timing suggestion is the answer, bunny
problem is, he goes to bed early and for various reasons i don't understand, he can't go next door until quite late (i mean next door don't want him round sooner)
so it either messes with dinnertime or bedtime, or he misses out
ah well

noel streatfeild is my favourite but pointy will scoff

oh and e. nesbit just FAB - the non magic ones even better than the magic ones
i heart oswald bastable

Did she write Thursday's Child? I bought that with prize money I received for some prize or other in primary school. I wonder what I did to deserve it.

I do feel there are so many good new authors out there and we could do their careers a world of good and help ensure more good books in teh future. People tend to go all nostalgic. Like me with my prize money.

another E. Nesbit fan here

Oh, and Astrid Lindgren...try The Brothers Lionheart and Ronja the Robber's Daughter and the books about Emil....and Karlsson....all of them in fact.

And I adore the moomin books.