The Children’s Press 1: Katharine L Oldmeadow

[callmemadam]

Looking for a ‘nice book’ to read in bed, I picked an old favourite, Katharine at Feather Ghyll by Anne Bradley. This set me thinking about the large number of Children’s Press books I’ve acquired over the years, luckily when they were still cheap. When I was a child, Children’s Press books were the ones you were most likely to own. For 2/6 you got

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[huskyteer]

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[callmemadam]

Golly!

[debodacious]

I love this idea. A friend of my grandmother had 3 daughters who were 5 to 10 years older than me. She passed on a big stack of their books which were mainly Children’s Press and Seagulls and introduced me to many of the authors I went on to collect. I remember they included Jane Shaw, Monica Edwards, Josephine Elder and several of the Princess books. There was also one of the abridged Oxenhams which I didn’t enjoy at all and which put me off the Abbey Girls for years. We were lucky there were so many books available at pocket money prices when we were young.

[callmemadam]

Thank you!
We were lucky there were so many books available at pocket money prices when we were young.
Absolutely and that's why I'm not snobby about these books. I'd never have met Susan without them. I think we have/had many of the same books :-)