General Chit Chat

[Annoyed Grunt]

I'm looking forward to Room on a broom! We love that book at bedtime.

It'll be the first time my 3yr old will see a film version of a book she knows, lookin forward to her reaction!

Just think, when she's a bit older you'll have all the joy of The Famous Five. Man, I loved those books.

Always thought The Secret Seven were better.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm looking forward to Room on a broom! We love that book at bedtime.

It'll be the first time my 3yr old will see a film version of a book she knows, lookin forward to her reaction!

Just think, when she's a bit older you'll have all the joy of The Famous Five. Man, I loved those books.

Always thought The Secret Seven were better.

Start with The Five, then do The Seven. Double pleasure.

[Annoyed Grunt]

I'm looking forward to Room on a broom! We love that book at bedtime.

It'll be the first time my 3yr old will see a film version of a book she knows, lookin forward to her reaction!

Just think, when she's a bit older you'll have all the joy of The Famous Five. Man, I loved those books.

Always thought The Secret Seven were better.

Start with The Five, then do The Seven. Double pleasure.

I did read a few Famous Five books......but always thought that The Secret Seven were better.....even though, they are essentially the same thing.

[thebish]

i tried to read the famous five to my boys - some 15yrs ago... but in the first chapter of the first book we tried, the famous five were on a train up to their creepy pervy uncle's house - and Dick said something that Julian poo-pooed... we really could go any further than that - they wouldn't take it seriously!

there's far better stuff around for kids of that age nowadays...

we've never had it so good with children's literature

[TANGODANCER]

i tried to read the famous five to my boys - some 15yrs ago... but in the first chapter of the first book we tried, the famous five were on a train up to their creepy pervy uncle's house - and Dick said something that Julian poo-pooed... we really could go any further than that - they wouldn't take it seriously!

there's far better stuff around for kids of that age nowadays...

we've never had it so good with children's literature

Aye, I suppose four kids who don't own an i-phone between them and a dog that's not been on "Britain's Got Talent" wouldn't be of much interest now.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

i tried to read the famous five to my boys - some 15yrs ago... but in the first chapter of the first book we tried, the famous five were on a train up to their creepy pervy uncle's house - and Dick said something that Julian poo-pooed... we really could go any further than that - they wouldn't take it seriously!

there's far better stuff around for kids of that age nowadays...

we've never had it so good with children's literature

Aye, I suppose four kids who don't own an i-phone between them and a dog that's not been on "Britain's Got Talent" wouldn't be of much interest now.

I too missed out on the famous five, but that was my uncle's fault. Back in the early sixties for one Christmas he bought me an entire library of abridged classics, and after reading King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Call of the Wild, Moonfleet, Moby Dick, Star Rover, and Robinson Crusoe, I'm afraid that the famous five were very tame in comparison

[TANGODANCER]

i tried to read the famous five to my boys - some 15yrs ago... but in the first chapter of the first book we tried, the famous five were on a train up to their creepy pervy uncle's house - and Dick said something that Julian poo-pooed... we really could go any further than that - they wouldn't take it seriously!

there's far better stuff around for kids of that age nowadays...

we've never had it so good with children's literature

Aye, I suppose four kids who don't own an i-phone between them and a dog that's not been on "Britain's Got Talent" wouldn't be of much interest now.

I too missed out on the famous five, but that was my uncle's fault. Back in the early sixties for one Christmas he bought me an entire library of abridged classics, and after reading King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Call of the Wild, Moonfleet, Moby Dick, Star Rover, and Robinson Crusoe, I'm afraid that the famous five were very tame in comparison

Those brought back memories (apart from Star Rover?). Loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn but read the rest after graduating from Fives and Sevens. Others were Westward Ho, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Last of the Mohicans, Gulliver's Travels and anything by G.K.Chesterton, to name but a few. Most were borrowed from Shephard Cross Street library and read by torchlight under the bed covers. Happy days.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

i tried to read the famous five to my boys - some 15yrs ago... but in the first chapter of the first book we tried, the famous five were on a train up to their creepy pervy uncle's house - and Dick said something that Julian poo-pooed... we really could go any further than that - they wouldn't take it seriously!

there's far better stuff around for kids of that age nowadays...

we've never had it so good with children's literature

Aye, I suppose four kids who don't own an i-phone between them and a dog that's not been on "Britain's Got Talent" wouldn't be of much interest now.

I too missed out on the famous five, but that was my uncle's fault. Back in the early sixties for one Christmas he bought me an entire library of abridged classics, and after reading King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Call of the Wild, Moonfleet, Moby Dick, Star Rover, and Robinson Crusoe, I'm afraid that the famous five were very tame in comparison

Those brought back memories (apart from Star Rover?). Loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn but read the rest after graduating from Fives and Sevens. Others were Westward Ho, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Last of the Mohicans, Gulliver's Travels and anything by G.K.Chesterton, to name but a few. Most were borrowed from Shephard Cross Street library and read by torchlight under the bed covers. Happy days.

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

[TANGODANCER]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

Biggles is banned? WTF?

[TANGODANCER]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

Biggles is banned? WTF?

His habit ( via W.E.Johns) of referring to his foes by names now considered racist got him the boot Monty. Way it goes...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

Biggles is banned? WTF?

His habit ( via W.E.Johns) of referring to his foes by names now considered racist got him the boot Monty. Way it goes...

But surely that would mean the end of John Buchan, Sax Rohmer, Sapper et al - anyone in fact who wrote in a period when the rules of political correctness were different. I recently re-read the five Richard Hannay adventures and Buchan would clearly be considered anti-Semitic by today's standards, but was quite normal by the standards of his time.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

Biggles is banned? WTF?

His habit ( via W.E.Johns) of referring to his foes by names now considered racist got him the boot Monty. Way it goes...

But surely that would mean the end of John Buchan, Sax Rohmer, Sapper et al - anyone in fact who wrote in a period when the rules of political correctness were different. I recently re-read the five Richard Hannay adventures and Buchan would clearly be considered anti-Semitic by today's standards, but was quite normal by the standards of his time.

This reminds me, I had a Rupert annual once-upon-a-time, and although I can no longer look it up as I lost it many years back, I'm sure one of the story lines was where he was in the jungle and captured missionaries were being cooked in big pots by black-skinned natives with frizzy hair, grass skirts, and bones shoved through their noses! Bad Rupert.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Star Rover, like Call of The Wild, is by Jack London. It confused the hell out of me as a kid, and is now amongst my top rated books of all time. It is one that I've read more than once and can get more out each time I read it. I highly recommend that you give it a go [but the full version, not the abridged]

_________________

Many books, re-read now divulge things missed first time round. I re-read Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone a month or two back and thought that. Bulldog Drummond and (the now banned) Biggles were also boyhood heroes. Finn The Wolfhound was another. Must admit Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter on Mars was almost in the Dan Dare League back then. I always wondered if it inspired the later Stephen Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? . I enjoyed reading The Weirdstone of Brisingham. Second childhood sort of thing.

Biggles is banned? WTF?

His habit ( via W.E.Johns) of referring to his foes by names now considered racist got him the boot Monty. Way it goes...

So we teach our kids that killing is ok but don't call them anything that John Terry would. Some progress huh

[TANGODANCER]

Don't remember exactly when it was issued but I've got the commemorative stamp of the boyhood ariel hero..(or should I not be saying that?)

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Read all the Biggles books at least twice as a kid. Might even still have one on the shelf. Wish I'd kpt some of the old clasics from my chidhood.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It seems to be from 1994, Tango.

There were many 1sts brought out



From top left these are Dan Dare, Three Bears, Rupert, Alice, Noggin, Peter Rabbit, Red Riding Hood, Orlando, Biggles and Paddington Bear.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It seems to be from 1994, Tango.

There were many 1sts brought out



From top left these are Dan Dare, Three Bears, Rupert, Alice, Noggin, Peter Rabbit, Red Riding Hood, Orlando, Biggles and Paddington Bear.

If I'm correct, they aren't commemoratives, they're from a set called smilers - used for birthdays, greetings, etc you could have your own photos printed as labels next to them so you can send your photos looking like stamps alongside an actual stamp.

[Prufrock]

Libraries choosing not to stock and 'banned' aren't the same thing.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Libraries choosing not to stock and 'banned' aren't the same thing.

Indeed they are not. I speak as one who actually knows this time.