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REVIEWS: Two Meg Cabots
Sep. 14th, 2007 06:19 pmNicola and the Viscount: Meg Cabot. Macmillan Children's Books, 2002.
There's an incident in the Chalet School series - bear with me - where a group of younger girls ask a prefect about books that are set in Regency England. Basically they want to learn old-fashioned slang to get around school rules. The elder girl suggests Georgette Heyer over Jane Austen - this always confused me, because I came to those two authors the other way around and happily so. Well, perhaps these days, if a similar situation arose (probably not under the same precise circumstances) there would be Cabot's Regencies. The sparkly pink (UK paperback) cover all but screams 'Regency! For 'Tweenies!' ( Read more... )
Teen Idol: Meg Cabot. Macmillan Children's Books, 2004.
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There's an incident in the Chalet School series - bear with me - where a group of younger girls ask a prefect about books that are set in Regency England. Basically they want to learn old-fashioned slang to get around school rules. The elder girl suggests Georgette Heyer over Jane Austen - this always confused me, because I came to those two authors the other way around and happily so. Well, perhaps these days, if a similar situation arose (probably not under the same precise circumstances) there would be Cabot's Regencies. The sparkly pink (UK paperback) cover all but screams 'Regency! For 'Tweenies!' ( Read more... )
Teen Idol: Meg Cabot. Macmillan Children's Books, 2004.
( Read more... )
