Can anyone help me with a children's book title?

[earlgrey]

Am looking for a book for dd1 - it's called something like 'The kids from 10 end street', or 5 end street.

Read it as a child and loved it - anyone remember the title?

TIA

The Family from One End Street?

Read it before you pass it on to dd, though! I loved it too, but found some of the attitudes in it a bit old fashioned and non pc when I read it to my dd. We both enjoyed it very much though, although I had to censor a bit as I read!

Thank you, F&Z! That's the one!

KL, this was going to be for dd1 to read alone. Can you let me know the things to had to censor? It's thirty odd years since I read it, and I don't want to buy her something unsuitable. TIA

Earlgrey - I might be a bit precious, but I was unhappy with the "rich man in his castle, poor man at the gate" element, and the forelock tugging, "Thankee, sir, thankee sir" dialogue. We had lots of conversations afterwards about the way people see things changes over the years - and she read the sequals (how on earth do you spell that!) for herself and enjoyed them. She was about 8, or maybe just 9.

I loved this book too.I recently found a copy for 10p, at a car boot sale.I haven't gotten around to reading it yet,my mum saw it & got so excited that I lent it to her first.It was one of her favourites.

My MIL, who loves to give anything I say I enjoyed as a child a good kicking, sneeringly said that Eve Garnett had been utterly discredited for her patronising view of the respectable urban poor and that she was beyond the pale as a writer for children now .
I have no problem with reading un-PC books with my children from my own childhood - as katelyle says, the way things have changed so astonishingly is a great springboard for discussion
I have really fond memories of Jaeger the bull terrier, the Dew Drop Inn/Do Drop In and poor Kate and the bottle of malt extract . But even as a child of the pre-womens' lib early seventies, I could spot that Lily Rose in general got a bum deal on the chores front
Hope your dd1 enjoys them too earlgrey. I think they are wonderful books

I think the fact that we remember the books so vividly - I remember the poems Kate learnt for the concert, lily Rose shrinking the customer's artificial silk petticoat, the baby (William?) eating the train tickets anmong lots of other incidents - shows how well written and lively they are. I would be surprised if dd remembers bits from the pre-teen pap she enjoys reading in 35 years time! They just need to be talked about, thet's all. Lots of books from previous eras do.

We have already had to put a lot into context when reading the Just William stories, kate - and Willard Price adventure stories, written fifty years ago and with an interestingly naive view of conservation and ecology
I agree that it is part of the pleasure of sharing the books with your child
"Go, shepherd, for they call you from the hills..." had forgotten about William consuming the train tickets though.

Marina - I can remember wanting the writing case Kate won as a prize for something - writing an essay I think -very badly indeed. And I remember the description of a party one of the boys gatecrashed.
Willard Price - is he the "Shark Adventure" man? Dd and I have also enjoyed Antonia Forest, Monica Edwards `nd Jennings. I haven't tried her on Biggles yet though!

These are fab books (prefer More tales from the family at one end st myself). Not sure about censoring them - OK the women do a lot of washing and housework but Kate has ambitions to work on a farm - that must be good

Remember reading somewhere that Eve Garnett was v enlightened for her time re her portrayal of the working classes.

And we will be reading the uncensored William stories to DS when he's old enough - John Buchan might take a little more explaining though