A post for Christmas

[azalaisdep]

This is both my belated-Solstice and early-Christmas post, wishing you all warmth, light and happiness of the season.

From Antonia Forest's End of Term, which has the most magical description of the school's Nativity play being performed in the town's Minster. I am no longer a Christian, but I can't read this description of the performance of the

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[ooxc]

Thank you. I don't thin kthat I knew that you were a Forest reader - I thought that we met elsewhere - but thank you! I'm hoping to dig out the book tomorrow - it's not snowbound like the humans, but there are considerable obstacles in front of it!

[azalaisdep]

I haven't read all the Marlow books - we have some, but not all, in the children's collection at work - but I love this one, and Peter's Room which is also fantastically atmospheric.

[ooxc]

I have them all, except Thursday Kidnapping - but some of them are disintegrating
I'm never sure what i think off Peter's Room. I sometimes thin k hat it would be stronger if the details of the role playing were left to our imagination

[curiouswombat]

What lovely extracts - I must look out for the book.

[azalaisdep]

They're not all in print, sadly - Amazon offers them at a wildly varying range of prices...

[ooxc]

It's possible that some of the smaller independent sellers have copies of the more recent Girls Gone By editions - that's how I got the Elizabethan books. All the others I've owned or inherited for years

[sensiblecat]

Indeed, that's lovely. I've recently read her two Shakespeare books and she certainly has a feel for the way that theatre can transport you.

One of my own seasonal favourites is the "Dulce Domum" chapter from "The Wind in the Willows", particularly when the fieldmice carol singers turn up on the doorstep.

[azalaisdep]

I haven't read The Wind in the Willows for years - I'm not sure we have a copy at home. I ought to get one for First.