I’ve had my copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel for a long time. I can’t remember how long and there is no date in the book – all I know is that it cost 3s 6d and I must have been about 11, 12 or 13 when I first read it. Once I started to read it [...]
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1911, my copy is a Penguin paperback published in 1958, 254 pages. For the Heart of a Child ChallengeI read The Secret Garden several times as a child and the story has stayed with me ever since. For years my picture of the ideal garden [...]
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Posted in Books, Heart of a Child on Feb 11th, 2008
When I read about the Heart of a Child Challenge I immediately thought of several books that I still had, Mr Blossom’s Shop being one of them. I remembered reading it as a child and hadn’t given it away because it was a prize from Sunday School for attendance. When I was a child every [...]
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Posted in Books, Heart of a Child on Feb 2nd, 2008
I really shouldn’t be entering another challenge, but I just can’t resist this one. It’s being run by Becky at Becky’s Book Reviews – see her post on this challenge here. The challenge is to read 3 to 6 books between February 1, 2008 and July 14, 2008, choosing from books and authors that you [...]
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