An Enchanted Wood
Have just been given my new laptop intended to facilitate my effectiveness as a teacher. So at last I shall be able to watch West Wing DVDs in the bath as God and nature intended.
I have just finished reading Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books to Genevieve. She has absolutley adored them. We finished Folk of the Faraway Tree just yesterday afternoon and already she has asked that we read them again.
They really are the perfect children's fantasy. Magical adventures with interesting food. Every time they climb up the tree, G wonders who will get splashed with Dame Washalot's water, she worries if the land at the top of the tree will move away whilst they are getting out of trouble. She laughs at Saucepan man's silly songs and wishes that she had a slipperyslip which went all the way down a giant tree.
Very perceptively she has also asked me why it is that Jo, the boy, gets the ideas, and won't let the girls get into fights.
I have loved reading them to her, but can't help having a little giggle at her constant use of 'queer'. 'a queer little man', 'a queer place', 'queer thing'. Everything unusual is queer! Every so often things are gay as well.
Still reading "the Tale of Murasaki", which a very leisurely book, but quite good really. Had to put it down when she has to leave her 5 year old child behind to go to court.
I have just finished reading Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books to Genevieve. She has absolutley adored them. We finished Folk of the Faraway Tree just yesterday afternoon and already she has asked that we read them again.
They really are the perfect children's fantasy. Magical adventures with interesting food. Every time they climb up the tree, G wonders who will get splashed with Dame Washalot's water, she worries if the land at the top of the tree will move away whilst they are getting out of trouble. She laughs at Saucepan man's silly songs and wishes that she had a slipperyslip which went all the way down a giant tree.
Very perceptively she has also asked me why it is that Jo, the boy, gets the ideas, and won't let the girls get into fights.
I have loved reading them to her, but can't help having a little giggle at her constant use of 'queer'. 'a queer little man', 'a queer place', 'queer thing'. Everything unusual is queer! Every so often things are gay as well.
Still reading "the Tale of Murasaki", which a very leisurely book, but quite good really. Had to put it down when she has to leave her 5 year old child behind to go to court.