Posted by Tim Johns on July 25, 1999 at 12:17:08 from wes22.bham.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: What a scene!! posted by David Chorley on July 23, 1999 at 05:22:41:
I'm singularly ill-equipped to take part in this debate, as I wasn't
read aloud to after the age of about 5, and I have no children to
be subjected to my own reading aloud. However I'm a tad worried at the
idea of following up AR, a real writer, with the works of Enid Blyton.
For the record, once I'd read Great Northern? round about the
age of 12, reading Ransome had prepared me for classic 'ageless' literature,
particularly things that made me laugh, for example:
Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers
H.G. Wells The History of Mr Polly
P.G. Wodehouse - Almost anything!
All of these make marvellous reading-aloud material: I am reminded of
an enthralling BBC reading some years back of Mr Polly
by David Davies ('Uncle David' of the old Children's Hour).