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This 1938 novel became a children's literature classic when it was reissued as a Puffin paperback in 1955; but Persephone Books has published it for both adults and children to read. It shows five children successfully looking after themselves when their parents go away and fail to return; and 'it is partly because of modern curtailment of childhood independence that Persephone Books (which has a cult following for its elegant resurrection of novels by women writers) has reissued the novel,' wrote Rachel Johnson on the "Daily Telegraph" Education page.Jacqueline Wilson observes in her Preface: 'Back in the fifties the book seemed entirely convincing. Reading it now I'm in my fifties it seems extraordinary...that the Dunnett children in the book were deliberately left on their own...Yet in spite of all her enormous household responsibilities the eldest girl, Sue, experiences a freedom and a sense of achievement not available to most Western teenage girls. She could certainly teach the teenage girls in my books a valuable lesson.'A starring role in the book is played by the haybox, which makes a lasting impression on every reader...
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This review is from: The Children Who Lived in a Barn (Paperback)
Perhaps it was the hay box. Perhaps it was the drama that made this book so irresistible for me. When I read this book as a child in California, the world where children who's parents had gone missing could move into a barn seemed so different from the wrold that I knew. At the same time, I felt drawn into this story of hay boxes, making do, and keeping the authorities at bay. I never felt that the book was dated, even though it was published in 1938. What clearly spoke to me was the sense of adventure and family these children had. I think most children wonder how they would make do if their parents were not around. This brilliant read takes you into the lives of five children who had to leave conventional existence behind.Oh yes, many years latter, while I was living in the UK, I built and used a hay box.
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This review is from: The Children Who Lived in a Barn (Paperback)
As a devoted Persephone reader, I expected this rather long children's story to contain many of the same themes of family, home and quiet fortitude that Persephone books specialise in. I wasn't disappointed. This charming story of children sticking together as a family and taking on the running of a household within a barn was delightful and reminded me very much of other period children's classics such as The Children of One End Street and A Wrinkle in Time.While the plot of this novel requires a serious leap of faith in order to render it believable, I still found myself irresistably drawn into the world of the characters. They are wonderfully and realistically drawn, and I do love the very 1930's speech Graham uses. This is a real step back in time to a world when everything was so much simpler and children really did know how to run a household and act responsibly rather than spending their days sitting in front of the television. This is a lovely book that I'd highly recommend for adults and slightly older children (7 up) alike. And I'm now determined to build myself a haybox just to see whether it really works!
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One of those formative books,
This review is from: The Children Who Lived in a Barn (Paperback)
I first read this as a child and reread it so many times the cover fell off (it was paperback), and have revisited it now in later years. It was one of those books that put me inside the situation emotionally, thinking about how I would cope and how I would run my own house. Somehow it's a very personal, old-fashioned read with not a great deal specifically happening but utterly absorbing, partly because you do really worry about the children and how long they will be able to cope. Reminds me very much of the Children of the New Forest but with a girl in charge and rather less patronizing boys.
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