Large Print Book
Tales from a village school / Miss Read ; illustrations by Kate Dicker.
Record details
- ISBN: 0783814410 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 0783814429 (lg. print : soft cover : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 190 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
- Edition: Large print ed.
- Publisher: Thorndike, Me : G.K. Hall, 1995.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The lucky hole -- Eskimos in the sand tray -- Harvest festival -- School dinner for forty -- Michaelmas fair -- Damage by conkers -- Conkers and gingernuts -- Gunpowder, treason and plot -- Snurling -- Christmas cards for forty -- The craftsman -- Carols for forty -- Forty in the wings -- Sleigh bells for the village school -- Snow on their boots -- Odour of sanctity -- Winter gloom -- Unstable element -- Black magic -- Stiff test for forty -- The visitor -- Conflicting evidence -- Rain on my desk -- Thirty-one and a donkeky -- Economy for forty -- The real thing -- Nature walk for forty --Wild surmise -- Goldfish and frogspawn -- Eight-a-side cricket -- Night and day -- The runaway -- Borrow a pound -- The flag -- Lost property -- PT for forty -- Clerical error -- Afterglow -- Soft and hard boiled -- Last day of term |
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| Subject: | Thrush Green (Imaginary place) > Fiction. Country life > England > Fiction. Villages > England > Fiction. Schools > England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Large type books. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
Tales from a Village School
Miss Read, 1913 - 2012 Miss Read was born on April 17, 1913 as Dora Jessie Shafe. She worked as a teacher and started writing after World War II for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She wrote her novels under the name Read, which was her mother's maiden name. She is best known for her novels of English rural life and used her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in her novels. She wrote more than forty novels; many were set in the British countryside -- Fairacre and Thrush Green novels. Read finished her writing career in 1996 with A Peaceful Retirement. In 1998, she was awarded an MBE for her services to literature. She died on April 7, 2012. (Bowker Author Biography)
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