Approaching Ransome (was Enid Blyton beats AR hands down)


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Posted by Jock on December 22, 2005 at 14:33:41 from 84.64.131.122 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Enid Blyton beats AR hands down posted by Mike Dennis on December 22, 2005 at 08:40:54:

I taught myself to read 'proper books', aged about 8 thanks to the local public library. They had a series of adventure books about a band of children growing up near a run down country estate in Scotland. I forget the author (possibly Fitzroy, or Fitzgibbon). They were well written, with good descriptions of the countryside, sympathetically portrayed local characters and dealt with male - female competition more realistically than AR. I was thrilled with them and very cross that the library did not seem to have the full set. The only difficulty with them was that they employed technology completely alien to someone growing up in the London suburbs - hunting stags with real rifles.

The public library also had a couple of volumes of Ransome (not Peter Duck or Missee Lee. I found AR utterly realistic, and was hooked for the rest of my life.

I came across Blyton many years later and read The Famous Five series because most of my friends seemed to gave grown up with them. Like the Potter books they were exciting and difficult to put down. Unlike AR's books, I have never reread them and all I can remember of them are a few interesting descriptions of some unusual outdoor locations and many long and boring descriptions of meals.


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