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Comforting to be back a - blogging. Been absent for a few weeks due to us moving back into our home-HURRAH HURRAH. Have been amidst boxes, losing things, finding things and just re making our home. I have to say my salvation-amongst lovely family and friends-has been stories and lots of them. Dixie O'Day is one of the first review sets to arrive back in the newly restored Joy Cottage so it was read in celebration last week. What a delightful read from an equally delightful pairing of Clara Vulliamy and her mum Shirley Hughes
http://www.dixieoday.com/meet-shirley-and-clara/
'Alfie' and 'Dogger' have always been favourites from my own childhood so to find a book with a Shirley Hughes story, illustrated by her daughter nonetheless, was a real treat. It is, as said above, a delightful book all round. The story is very gentle-there's some good moral fibre in it with good turns being repaid by good turns and equally unkind characters 'reaping what they have sown'. The illustrations are monochrome with lovely red and pink snippets. Just love the shapes and illustrations throughout. Look out for the wacky races page with different vehicles in the town driven by different animals including a bath tub with a family of seals in it. It's a nice size as well- is it my age that I like a nice book size? I don't know, but this one is one you could pop into a bag -perfect for some sunny day reading and even for some picnic inspiration!
http://www.dixieoday.com/meet-shirley-and-clara/
'Alfie' and 'Dogger' have always been favourites from my own childhood so to find a book with a Shirley Hughes story, illustrated by her daughter nonetheless, was a real treat. It is, as said above, a delightful book all round. The story is very gentle-there's some good moral fibre in it with good turns being repaid by good turns and equally unkind characters 'reaping what they have sown'. The illustrations are monochrome with lovely red and pink snippets. Just love the shapes and illustrations throughout. Look out for the wacky races page with different vehicles in the town driven by different animals including a bath tub with a family of seals in it. It's a nice size as well- is it my age that I like a nice book size? I don't know, but this one is one you could pop into a bag -perfect for some sunny day reading and even for some picnic inspiration!
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