tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post8077605388201258888..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: A Pound shop book and children's stories - Gwen GrantKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-44912435938036447522011-11-04T12:49:50.793+00:002011-11-04T12:49:50.793+00:00Thank you, Catherine. I had the same experience wi...Thank you, Catherine. I had the same experience with a book - one that somehow appeared in our house, called,'At the back of the North Wind.' Books were not widely available to us when I was a child so when we did come across them, they were really precious. The Library was good, if you had clean hands! If you din't, they wouldn't let you in, so we would wash our hands in the little river that ran nearby.Gwen Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531374391225320480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-66892622501507736902011-11-03T22:24:14.784+00:002011-11-03T22:24:14.784+00:00What a beautiful and uplifting post! One of my mos...What a beautiful and uplifting post! One of my most vivid memories from my schooldays is of a temporary primary school teacher who read The Wind in the Willows aloud to us. This was in a small city school, in a not very well off area (Armley, in Leeds) and my parents read to me all the time - we were a working class household with lots of books - but I still remember that reading as an almost magical experience (and have loved the book ever since!)Maybe because the teacher took so much pleasure in the book himself.Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-78967263824832517682011-11-03T18:34:39.278+00:002011-11-03T18:34:39.278+00:00Dear Emma and Roz,
I don't know how to send se...Dear Emma and Roz,<br />I don't know how to send separate replies so please forgive this doubling up. Thank you both for your comments. It seems to me that children's writers can be so under-valued, yet it's part of our good fortune that, luckily, children themselves don't under-value us and always give us a welcome, sometimes years and years after they have read our books or met us. As you say, Emma, stories can take them out of their surroundings - I've worked in a Hospice anf found this to be true. Hope you enjoy Dennis Hamley's book, Roz. I read it some years ago now and loved it.Gwen Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531374391225320480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53915058644142647882011-11-03T17:41:17.871+00:002011-11-03T17:41:17.871+00:00Lovely post. Sometimes, as you say, what you need ...Lovely post. Sometimes, as you say, what you need is a simple story. I'm checking out Dennis's book too.Roz Morris aka @Roz_Morris . Blog: Nail Your Novelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088813423467048081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-29225033924479895312011-11-03T16:50:58.237+00:002011-11-03T16:50:58.237+00:00A really lovely post. The Enid Blyton reader enca...A really lovely post. The Enid Blyton reader encapsulates what is so precious about books and reading - that they can open up whole worlds, regardless of circumstances and immediate surroundings.Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-17218555697196980002011-11-03T15:12:19.194+00:002011-11-03T15:12:19.194+00:00Thanks, Karen. I was really glad to be able to sh...Thanks, Karen. I was really glad to be able to share this story. Even at the time, I was aware of what a privilege it was to be able to talk to him - how he simply trusted that I would understand about his books. Thankfully, I think such experiences remind us of how special a place chldren's writers have in so many people's childhood.Gwen Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531374391225320480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-57750337094573796962011-11-03T12:54:08.240+00:002011-11-03T12:54:08.240+00:00What a lovely post, Gwen. Loved the story about th...What a lovely post, Gwen. Loved the story about the man with the Enid Blyton books. We should never forget how important books are to children and the pleasure they get from reading them.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11716058361689251073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-42828625723209000302011-11-02T12:55:54.169+00:002011-11-02T12:55:54.169+00:00Thank you, Linda. I was really glad to be able t...Thank you, Linda. I was really glad to be able to share that story because from all the thousands of people I've seen over the years in my capacity as a writer, he is one who has always been in my mind.Gwen Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531374391225320480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-58632791332856791012011-11-02T09:36:40.868+00:002011-11-02T09:36:40.868+00:00Thank you, Gwen, for this beautiful post. The stor...Thank you, Gwen, for this beautiful post. The story about the man doing time with Enid Blyton brought tears to my eyes. What a blessing (and sometimes a life-saver) literacy is.Linda Gillardhttp://www.lindagillard.co.uknoreply@blogger.com