22-06-2014, 06:44 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Not at my school they didn't we had janet and john then some of the classics.
See skip run...
Even as a child I was angry to be treated like a mentally deficient..
22-06-2014, 06:46 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by lilac
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God..Janet and John books..how mind bogglingly boring were they?See skip run...
Even as a child I was angry to be treated like a mentally deficient..
22-06-2014, 06:58 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by Patsy
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Janet and John equals 3 years old, to teach us to read, that was their purpose
''Look''said Janet..''see Skip play.''
22-06-2014, 07:00 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by lilac
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I already knew how to read and write..my mother taught me..so to be confronted by such nonsense was beyond me..''Look''said Janet..''see Skip play.''
22-06-2014, 07:02 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by lilac
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I already knew how to read and write..my mother taught me..so to be confronted by such nonsense was beyond me..''Look''said Janet..''see Skip play.''
22-06-2014, 07:05 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
It was any book by Enid Blyton for me, I enjoyed every one of them.
Interesting though, I bought a set of her books for my Granddaughter when she was 7, telling her how much I enjoyed reading them when I was her age. I asked my daughter a while later if she enjoyed reading them, the reply was "not really Mum, she couldn't understand the way the stories were written and they seemed old fashioned to her"
Just goes to show how story books have changed for youngsters over the years.Two years later when she was 9, she was right into Harry Potter so that Christmas I bought her a set of HP books ..... she was thrilled with them and had a job to put them down.
She has let my Grandson read them since and he also enjoyed them.
22-06-2014, 07:08 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
To numerous to mention really , from an early age I 'escaped' into books ..Just a few..
..Black Beauty
..The Country Child (by Alison Utley of Little Grey Rabbit fame) a book about a child growing up in Derbyshire near my home.
..The Wind in the Willows.
..The Water Babies
..The complete set of Famous Five and Secret Seven
22-06-2014, 07:18 PM
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Re: Your favourite childhood book
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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The Swallows & Amazons books by Arthur Ransome. I gather they were based on real people and events. I've re-read them recently - they bring back times when children were allowed to have a childhood.
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