The Princess and the Goblins

[Catherine]

As a child I read The Princess and the Goblins. To me, as a small child, I found this book really scary. My older sister told me not to read as it was kept in her bedroom. But as usual I never took any notice of her and read it any way. Years later we were camping in Cartmel and my OH decided to take me for a walk in the woods at dusk. We started to walk through the woods and it started to get dark. I started to walk faster and faster and virtually popped out over the stile at the end of the woods.

My OH asked me what was wrong and suggested we walk back through the woods to the camp site which was the shorter route to go. But I would not go back into the wood.

Has any one else read a book that has had a profound affect on their life. This definately had an affect on mine.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Catherine, not exactly a book that i read, but a story that was read out to us at school, i would have been either 5 or 6 years of age at the time.

I'll try and keep it as short as possible.

There was a boy-scout on Bob a job week, he went to an old man, that gave him an amount of jobs to fulfill. He was quite a lazy boy and didn't complete any of the jobs, he just shook the first couple of sacks and only washed the first couple of seed-trays and so on.
He then went to the old man for his money, but he old man said, "you already have your money", but the boy replied that he did not.
So the old man took the boy to all the jobs he should have done, they went to the sacks that the boy should have shaken, and at the botom of the heap was a shilling, then they went to the seed-trays that he should have been washed, under the last seed-tray was a shilling, and so on.
So the boy went off empty handed.

So the moral of the story was, if a jobs worth doing it's worth doing well.

I have tried to do this story justice through my life, as it made a real impact on me at young and tender age.

[The Mouse]

Hi OH

That's an Enid Blyton story, if I remember rightly. I can remember reading it when I was about 6 years old. Isn't it strange the things that stick in your mind - I can even remember where abouts in the classroom I was sat when I read it!

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Bert the mouse, i suppose that would have been at the back and in the corner.

Sorry.

[Catherine]

Its funny how you remember where you were when you read something that sits in your mind forever. I can still see the bedroom my sister had when I was small and I used to sneak into there to read it whilst she was out, that was about *0 years ago. I must admit OH I dont remember your story.

[alan refail]

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You can download the book HERE

[Catherine]

Thank you for that Alan, my book was a plain blue cover, I have never downloaded anything like this before, hey I dont even know how to download music is it safe and if so how big is the file as we only 5 meg or gig (whatever) on our internet. Last month because we were looking for a car we almost used up all our allowance.

[alan refail]

Hi Catherine

As an alternative to downloading, you can read it page by page HERE without downloading anything.

[Catherine]

Thank you Alan. Sorry to sound so thick.

[WestHamRon]

Hi Catherine

As an alternative to downloading, you can read it page by page HERE without downloading anything.

This is the most generous thing I have ever read on an internet forum.
Top darts, sir.

[Catherine]

I agree WestHamRon I did really appreciate it and I have saved it to my Book marks and will start reading it later this week.

[alan refail]

Morning WHR and Catherine

Thanks for your apreciation. In all honesty it is better owed to Google and
http://www.childrensnursery.co.uk

[The Mouse]

Dear Bert the mouse, i suppose that would have been at the back and in the corner.

Sorry.

If they'd let me, it would have been! I was the shyest child imaginable.

[The Mouse]

I don't remember ever reading The Princess and the Goblins. It's surprising because I used to read anything I could get my hands on, and my mum had quite a lot of stories like that.

What I do remember was taking a volume of Hans Christian Anderson stories out with me one summer's day, and lying on top of the bracken and bilberry bushes reading, miles from anywhere!
(more of a field mouse than a house mouse, OH )

Now there's something that today's youngsters wouldn't be allowed to do. They don't know what they're missing out on!

[glallotments]

Anyone see the TV programme on Enid Blyton? Bit of a shock.

When I was teaching the LA went through a stage of political correctness relating to books in schools and someone came from the libraries and removed all her books said they were too middle class. They also removed all stories with stereotypes e.g. girls doing girlie things and boys doing boysie things. Our library was very bare after their visit!!!

If I remember rightly Noddy and Big Ears relationship had to be scrutinised and cleaned up and the golly had to go!!! Weren't the Noddy books republished?