Thread:Wawa-pixie/@comment-30549602-20170416220703/@comment-30549602-20170420013818

I don't think I have read a single Enid Blyton! We did used to read Girl's Own style of ripping yarns, mostly set in English boarding schools, the site of many high jinks and high teas, inevitably served with "lashings" of jam.

When I was little, my sister used to read to me from a book of Grimm fairy tales. And from another, also full of inappropriate material for impressionable minds; cautionary tales about disobedient children who met terrible ends for their sins. Like "The story of Augustus, the little boy who would not eat his soup". Dreadful stuff.

At ten, I loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I did not discover AA Milne until well past the age of six. (Still love him ... James James Morrison Morrison...) And I used to devour Agatha Christie, for which there was a craze among my 12 yr old equally nerdy friends at High School. Most of us were library monitors lol. No wonder I ended up writing for a living. Come to think of it, mysteries and crime fiction still firm favorites.

ciao 4 now 🐨🌷