Dick King Smith* – some animal themed books like The Sheep-Pig and Charlotte’s Web. Set on farms, exploring animal relationships, rescues and adventures. Willard Price adventure books* – less specifically animals, but introducing different environments around the world. Clare Balding children’s ...
Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees.He was indefatigable at this.He formed the Egg ...
as if her pupil had been a little child, she began to teach Sylvia to read the first chapter of Genesis; for all other reading but the Scriptures was as vanity to her, and she would not condescend to the weakness of other books. Sylvia...
Rand and Mat find their way east, working at farms in exchange for food or a place to sleep. At the Grinwell farm Rand pulls out his flute and plays, to much applause. They realize they can play and juggle at inns instead. Chapter 32: Four Kings in Shadow(Adar 15 N.E. 998) In ...
What worse—what more general malady pervades each and all of us, our literature, education, attitude toward each other, (even toward ourselves,) than a morbid trouble about seems, and no trouble at all, or hardly any, about the sane, slow-growing perennial, real parts of character, books...
loving children who gathered round me and joined heartily in myfrolicswere also blind. I remember the surprise and the pain I felt as I noticed that they placed their hands over mine when I talked to them and that they read books with their fingers. Although I had been told this before...
but he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected herjudgment71: he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction byjudicious10praise. In return for such services she loved him better than anybody in th...
the fathers collecting the prayer-books, until all streamed out through the old archway into the green churchyard and began their neighbourly talk, their simple civilities, and their invitations to tea; for on a Sunday every one was ready to receive a guest—it was the day when all ...
Within a few weeks Snowball’s plans for the windmill were fully worked out. The mechanical details came mostly from three books which had belonged to Mr. Jones—One Thousand Useful Things to Do About the House, Every Man His Own Bricklayer, and Electricity for Beginners. Snowball used as hi...
It's so in all the books.""Why, it's real bully, Tom. I believe it's better'n to be a pirate.""Yes, it's better in some ways, because it's close to home and circuses and all that."By this time everything was ready and the boys entered the hole, Tom in the lead. They...