So, I'm sorry Eleanor Graham and Puffin this particular Puffin Story Book does NOT deserve a place in the Puffin pantheon. 155) Really?!?! Any ten-year-old who spoke like that, 1930s or not, is asking for a slap. There is no longer any room on the roads so the train is coming into its own again. 'Train travel is no longer vulgar all the best people are going back to the railway for travel. For example, here is Jean, aged ten or eleven: 'Oh!' said Jean. Most unlikely of all is the language the children use. I know one theme of these 'holiday' books is children proving themselves smarter than adults, but the cheekiness of these children to adults of the 'lower classes' is painful. The class issues are atrocious! Despite having spent my childhood reading the appalling End Blyton, this is the first time I've seriously wanted the bad guys to win, preferably by smothering the heroes. One of 'Mummy's' roles is to be very firm with the police about what investigations they can do into the smuggling operation run from the property her children's holiday is more important than law and order. McGregor, The Quantum Age: How the Physics. The house is already equipped with a full time gardener, and a local farmhand takes care of the family pony. Raphael Gomes, Christianity and the Detective StoryWalter Raubicheck. illustrated by William Grimmond and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. 'Daddy' is working overseas, but 'Mummy' and 'Auntie' both accompany the children, together with Cook and a couple of maids. The Young Detectives (Puffin Books) by McGregor, R.J.
Not by name, but definitely by implication.įive children, aged between seven and nearly thirteen, go for a holiday to a large house in Devonshire, bought for the family by 'Daddy' with the money he is making from a visit to America.
First published in 1934 and then published as Puffin Story Book 47 in 1948, this is one of the books that Geoffrey Trease condemned in Tales Out of School: A survey of children's fiction (1948). Web.ġ951 'Children's Books Are Better', The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953), 16 December, p. "Children's Books Are Better" The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953) 16 December 1951: 12. The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953), p. Article identifier Page identifier APA citationĬhildren's Books Are Better (1951, December 16).
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