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What Favourite books do you remember from school?
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Donnieinherts | Report | 24 Dec 2006 22:54 |
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Enid Blytons Magic Faraway Tree, have read that to my four children. Little House on the Prarie was another. Plus That Was Then This Is Now (no idea who the author was). The Machine Gunners was another. Donna |
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Nanna Gaynor (June nr Preston's Daughter) | Report | 27 Dec 2006 07:59 |
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Hi Lesley.... it could possibly have been in the same group. I remember it definately had Children's Treasury of Literature in the title. It's so frustrating, I had given it to my children (now grown up) and still had it up until a few years ago when we moved house. I have seen a book online which has a very similar description and volume of 700 - 800 pages but the cover is defferent. I could be the same book in an updated jacket but I can't be sure. Thanks anyway. Gaynor |
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Deb Vancouver (18665) | Report | 27 Dec 2006 08:21 |
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Len - English Lit was not one of my favourite subjects, but we had to endure several years of the 'Merchant'. Why, I don't know. Part of a grammar school education I guess? I still can't comprehend how I ended up in that school. 11 plus must have been easy to pass in those days! Deb |
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Debi Coone | Report | 27 Dec 2006 09:08 |
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LITTLE MISS PEPPERPOT Loved the books so much that I hunted them down for my own daughter when she was 8 - she liked them too but not as much as I who re read them all over again LOL |
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Sandra | Report | 27 Dec 2006 09:16 |
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Favourites were 'The Ghost of Thomas Kemp','Reach for the Sky' and 'Silas Marner' I didn't enjoy The Merchant of Venice,Of Mice and Men or The Taming of the Shrew very much... ...'The quality of mercy is not strained.It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the ground beneath'.... Yep! Still remember Portias bit! Sandra. xxx |
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Debi Coone | Report | 27 Dec 2006 09:31 |
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I forgot to mention when I sat my O levels we were reading BRAVE NEW WORLD by ALDOUS HUXLEY.................... I really did enjoy this book!! |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 27 Dec 2006 12:19 |
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The replies to this thread bring back forgotten memories. I loathed Shakespeare - and still do - but found Steinbeck unputdownable and probably read his entire output. I may or may not have read Silas Marner but it reminds me of My Uncle Silas by H.E.Bates which appealed to me I did English Lit (marginably better than English grammar) because I had to. The subjects I mostly enjoyed were Art, Physics and Chemistry. Anyone do longer narrative poems? (The sedge has withered from the lake- and no birds sing) More purgatory! len |
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MaggyfromWestYorkshire | Report | 27 Dec 2006 19:30 |
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Just found this thread......my favourite book at Junior School was The Secret Garden, can't remember who wrote it (Frances somebody??) Also loved A Childs Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Bought it for my own kids and it still sits in my bookcase now. The one that I hated was Animal Farm by George Orwell. Just Googled, it was Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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