Posted by Duncan on January 24, 2013 at 00:13:50 user Duncan.
In Reply to: Re: The Big Six - But Not AR! posted by Adam Quinan on January 23, 2013 at 14:29:26:
Do you think it's likely that Dorothea would have been aware of this Big Five in the 1930s (obviously she was, because she mentions them!)? I assume that it was a familiar enough reference for adults, but I wonder if contemporary child readers understood the origins of the title?