Re: ideas store
Posted by:
jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: March 18, 2003 08:49PM
You go away for five minutes and people run about being entertaining and thoughtful ..... I learnt to read from a book about a tiger, which my mother had to read to me until I knew it by heart, and could read it myself. When I went to school I was the *only* kid in the class would could read properly, which meant I got to skip lessons (and it was all downhill from there, really).
James James Morrison Morrison was a party piece in our family, and so was Cottleston Pie. I cleaned the children's section of Chadderton Library out, (I read *all* Dr. Dolittle, Swallows and Amazons and all 39 Just William books at least ten times each) and was given special dispensation to have an adult ticket (it didn't hurt that mother used to work there). Years later, when I was unemployed, I used to spend all day in the marvellous Central Library in Manchester, sitting under the enormous dome of the main Reading Room studying all manner of stuff that caught my fancy. I grew up in libraries.
Can I recommend to Eddie 'The Last Noo-Noo' by Jill Murphy, which I had to read to my niece a lot, and still kept me entertained even at the 33rd go. There are some very good picture books for small kids these days, but the ones I remember enjoying when I were a nipper were the Beatrix Potter tales, the Little Grey Rabbit books by Alison Uttley, and the immortal Orlando the Marmalade Cat by Kathleen Hale (fantastic pictures, great stories). Rupert Bear is a moron, but Paddington was cool, and his creator Michael Bond also did stories about a mouse called Thursday!
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