The Bookshelf

@toybulldog wrote:

@*Sian wrote:

Can anyone remember the Pirate books? They were part of the Griffin Readers Series by Sheila McCullagh.

Sian, I’ve been trying to remember these details for years ! Roderick the Red, Benjamin the Blue, Gregory the Green…………..what transpires when three pirates all bury their treasure on the same island, like a kids version of the good, the bad and the ugly it was.

And you saunter in all casual like and post the information just like that !

They made such an impression on the young bulldog mind, somewhere along the line my memory has mixed them up with the old black + white Robinson Crusoe programme on tv, dubbed from the French and that theme music……….

I now love you – OFFISHALL
xx

Woof ! Woof Woof !!

Offishall it is!

@sharongooner wrote:

Esme…. I’ll leave the big words and wierd sentances to you, I know you’ll read this. Love ya, nuff said xxx :wink:

But I’m away with the faeries and no-one..and I MEAN no-one loves a good faery story more than me!
I was brought up with the tales of The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, and at school, fell in love with a whole series of faery books. each one called after a colour. I well remember hatching a plot to steal The Blue Faery Story Book out of the school library by the simple expedient of shoving it up my jumper. I then feigned sickness so that the school nurse sent me home, waiting until out of sight of the headmaster’s office, before hop-skipping with unbridled joy, all the way to the sweetshop en route home, where, to this day, I can still remember spending my sixpence on a traffic light lollipop and a bag of rainbow sherbet.
Thus equipped, I arrived home looking suitably feverish, to be tucked up in bed by mum and after much fussing and a bowl of soup, I was left alone to fondle, smell and eventually read my looted Blue Faery Story Book.
An attack of conscience the next day, saw me sneaking my booty back into the school library. I’ve been kicking myself ever since. :(

@(f)politics? wrote:

@sharongooner wrote:

Am sooooo gonna sleep well tonight. this is the best thread EVER. Im still picturing the princess and the pea. that is one that I believed when I was young… all those matresses!!

(Poli… did you see my reply about Anna Sewell?)

have now shazza lol yes she wrote black beauty hun xx

Thnk I read somewhere that was the only book she wrote.
Or was it someone else who wrote aboute some horse?

I agree with the Martina Cole thingy… they all melt into one big gansta, hard done by woman, prostitute, hard woman saga type story, but I do like em. 8)

Poli have you read any of the Pullen-Thompson sisters books… all horse themed? I have read most of them, but Phantom Horse and I rode a winner were brilliant.

Black Beauty always made me cry

Young girl’s dream come true that one!

Moves house, wanders through near fields, finds lovely tame horse, (beautiful palimino) looks after him, feeds him, its just lovely. I wont tell you any more incase you read it. Im going to have to read it again now.

I got all my horse books in a second hand book shop in Jersey when I was around 12/13, for about 10 pence each, came back with a suitcase full! Still got them all, a bit tatty but they hold so many memories.