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box.of.frogs
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I loved the Jennings and Darbyshire series by Anthony Buckeridge. We lived way out in the sticks and I couldn't wait for the Mobile Library to come every Wednesday so that I could choose another book.
That's brought back another memory - the smell of the mobile library - pipe tobacco mixed with old books with an undercurrent of manure. I loved it! |
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jog_on
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We used to have the mobile library at school too...never understood why though, as to walk to the actual library only took 2 minutes! Rather pointless if you ask me!
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jog_on
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Ooooh...must confess that my secret read as a child was Judy Blume's Forever - how I blushed!!!! 
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Over40
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| I used to love reading the Jennings books - maybe I've still got some in a box in the loft and I'll read them again. I've got a lot of the books I enjoyed as a child and I hope my two will also read them but they're not as colourful as modern ones. |
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brummie
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| jog_on wrote: | | Ooooh...must confess that my secret read as a child was Judy Blume's Forever - how I blushed!!!! |
I LOVE forever - I re-read it on a regular basis - that bittersweet mix of first love - that you can never replace - and then the grief - and then the heartbreak of first love not working out.....love it.
Didn't appreciate it when I first read it of course - the obsession back then was finding out why Mum's friend who worked in the bookshop wouldn't let Mum buy it for me!
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jog_on
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Ha ha!
I got it from the library when I was in Y6!!! Shocked is not the word to describe me reading certain parts of it!!!
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brummie
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we had a copy in our high school library which was........erm....well thumbed shall we say/
We all knew what was in it so it wasn't quite as shocking for us!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| I read it in Year 7 borrowed it from school library had read all Judy Blume's books so didn't realise it had naughty bits in it !!! - my mum was furious when she found it and complained to the school ! |
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