Books from your childhood

You read this as a child? Surely you didn't understand what you were reading??

Val

 

I liked The Borrowers, Charlotte's Web. Anything about butterflies.

 

What about all those 'Ladybird' books full of really exciting stuff like how to connect a light bulb to a battery via a switch?

 

Janet and John go to the seaside

 

Janet and John, I'd forgotten them. They were, if I remember right, slightly younger than Peter and Jane.

Incidentally, I wonder how many of us knew that there is a German Janet and John/Peter and Jane. They are Hans und Lieselotte. They were used at my school to teach us kids to speak and understand German. They were audio books. I can only remember one scene: Hans and Lieselotte were walking in the forest (oh yes?), hans slips and hurts his leg. "Hilf, hilf, helfen sie bitte!". Poor lad. Didn't his parents teach to check that everything is still attached and roughly the right shape, and just get on with it

 

No stiff upper lip see

 

I'm suprised the military hasn't developed the crowd control strands used near the end of the book.

For those that haven't read it, the helicopters drop gossamer strands that the crowd get covered in. The strands are sticky & tighten round people as they struggle, squeezing the life out of them. The ones they want to release are freed by a spray.

 

All you will need is a few tubes of instant grab No-Nails in the helicopter weapon pods - perfect crowd control

 

Ladybird books were never like this when I was a kid: