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REVIEW: Welsh Adventure
Feb. 22nd, 2018 09:05 amWelsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club edition 1968
I had to get this to read! ( Read more... )
I had to get this to read! ( Read more... )
ADOLYGIAD: Welsh Adventure
Feb. 21st, 2018 04:49 pmWelsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club, 1968
[This is a Welsh review of the above book, the English translation will be posted shortly.]
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[This is a Welsh review of the above book, the English translation will be posted shortly.]
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REVIEW: Jersey Adventure
Aug. 20th, 2016 12:38 pmJersey Adventure: Viola Bayley, Dent, 1969
The back flap of this book’s dust jacket quotes the Junior Bookshelf stating ‘Miss Bayley is a sort of Mary Stewart for young readers’, which is an accurate description, I think. ( Read more... )
The back flap of this book’s dust jacket quotes the Junior Bookshelf stating ‘Miss Bayley is a sort of Mary Stewart for young readers’, which is an accurate description, I think. ( Read more... )
REVIEW: Paris Adventure
Nov. 14th, 2010 07:29 pmParis Adventure:Viola Bayley. Dent, 1962.
I may have been guilty of remembering Viola Bayley’s work too fondly, it having been a while since I read any of her stories – in general, tales of families on holiday/abroad in exoticish locations who get embroiled in adventures involving gangs and new, charismatic half-foreign friends. In fact, when put like that, apart from some of the locations being more exotic, it sounds a bit Malcolm Savilley.( Read more... )
I've subsequently started reading Penelope Lively's Consequences, and am finding it quite wonderful and engrossing.
I may have been guilty of remembering Viola Bayley’s work too fondly, it having been a while since I read any of her stories – in general, tales of families on holiday/abroad in exoticish locations who get embroiled in adventures involving gangs and new, charismatic half-foreign friends. In fact, when put like that, apart from some of the locations being more exotic, it sounds a bit Malcolm Savilley.( Read more... )
I've subsequently started reading Penelope Lively's Consequences, and am finding it quite wonderful and engrossing.
