Ellen B commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
You might be interested in this link, http://www.hbook.com/aboutus/littlehistory.asp, to the history of The Horn Book, an American magazine stated about 75 years ago that takes children's literature...
View ArticleRuth commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Yet another of the books that the wonderful Mrs Gerard read to us in chapters on Friday afternoons. Others were "The Silver Sword", The Children on the Oregon Trail, One Hundred and One Dalmatians...
View ArticleErika commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Oh my goodness--but I have read this book and remember it so well. Oh those adult characters were so terrifying to my young eyes. I suffered with the children and of course didn't spot the roles into...
View ArticleSteve Augarde commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Getting the grown-ups out of the way is a big problem for children’s authors, and the more so nowadays where the idea of parents voluntarily leaving youngsters to fend for themselves for is...
View ArticleErika commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Thia has reminded me of an unusual children's book "No Other Children" by Margaret Lovett, published in 1949 by Faber and Faber. I haven't met anyone else who knows it. It sets the above on its head....
View Articledovegreyreader commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Ellen, thank you for that link. I'd heard of The Horn Book but didn't know much about it and nor did I realise it was still in print.What wonderful covers! Ruth the more I think back the more I realise...
View Articledovegreyreader commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Steve that is fascinating. Jacqueline Wilson mentions latch-key children and interestingly there was something on Woman's Hour about it today. How it was perceived and how assumptions followed about...
View ArticlePenny commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
How lovely to be reminded of this book.....
View Articleelegance commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
Oh thank you. I have been looking for this book all my adult life. I couldn't remember the title but recognised the story. It was read to my class in weekly installments by our teacher nun at my...
View ArticleErika commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
The Horn Book is a wonderful production. The articles have often been by interesting writers and members of the book world (time for a contribution by Lynne?)and its sister, The Horn Book Reading...
View ArticleBet commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
This is the kind of book I would love to have read as a child. Have you read Good to Fault by Marina Endicott? One of the child characters in this book finds The Children Who Lived in a Barn in a...
View ArticleBecky commented on 'The Children Who Lived in a Barn ~ Eleanor Graham'
I loved this book and only wish I had read it as a child. It rather reminded me of an Enid Blyton story in which children who are being ill treated by their aunt and uncle while their parents are away...
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