Laura’s Summer Ballet, Linda Blake. Children’s Press 1967. A sequel to Ballet for Laura, Children’s Press 1965. My copy of the latter is in The Seagull Library, which I hope to deal with later.


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Holiday Summer by Decie Merwin (1960)


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Chester House Wins Through, Irene Smith. The Children’s Press 1967.
This is one of two school stories written by Irene Smith. The first edition had green boards and a dw but my copy, illustrated here, has printed boards and states, ‘this impression 1968’.


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A Matter of Clues, Monica Marsden. !st edition Children’s Press 1962. ‘A light-hearted Rhodesian Adventure Story for Girls’


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The Secret of Grange Farm 1962 according to NLS but my copy states ‘first printed 1961’


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Adventure at Brackendale by Linda Peters, 1961.


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Black Forest Summer by Mabel Esther Allan, Bodley Head 1957.


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Viola Bayley wrote many books with Adventure in the title: Jersey Adventure, Greek Adventure etc. I had quite a few of these in the past.

White Holiday (Collins 1953) was the only one of her books to be published by Collins. It was reissued in The Seagull Library 1953-55 and The Children’s Press 1956-57 ( Read more... )

Stepmother published by OUP 1948. Reprinted by the Children’s Press in 1965 as Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre. Published in America (?) as Those Verney Girls


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Jill at Hazelmere 1964 CP is first
Jill Investigates 1965 CP is first

Valerie Hastings is mentioned on my blog as the author of the Girl Wendy and Jinx series hereI can’t think where I got these books, neither of which is in good condition. Perhaps they were part of a job lot I bought. They are written about the very time I was a schoolgirl ( Read more... )