- Hardcover: 53 pages
- Publisher: Ladybird Books; 1st. Edition edition (Dec 1961)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0721401007
- ISBN-13: 978-0721401003
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 100,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
What would a modern child make of this book (one of a series covering the four seasons)? I really don't know. Some things haven't changed at all since 1961; there is a lot here about wildlife. But then there are the descriptions of farming, much of the world depicted seeming lifetimes rather than simply decades away. If I had grandchildren I'd buy them these books, and sit down and go through the pages with them.
The format is simple. On the righthand page is a painting by the great traditional countryside artist Tunnicliffe. On the facing page, the text describes what we see, picking out detail and explaining the background. The combination has real charm. We see the first catkins above a windswept mere, violets in a hedge bank, seagulls following the seed drill, rooks nesting, hares "boxing" (I was nearly 50 before I saw this for real, in Norfolk), and so on through spring to a classic Tunnicliffe compostion of a herring gulls nest high on rocks amid thrift and campion. there is an index at the back, too.
When I was a small child, growing up in precisely the countryside found in these pages, I found the books enthralling. They DID tell me what to look for, and, guided by its gently didactic tone, I saw it. Though beautfully written, the language used in the text is surprisingly grown up; these aren't "early reader" books and grown-ups looking for bedtime reading for an intelligent child will find enough here to stretch them. An ideal introduction to get someone interested in nature, or a blast from the past for sentimental grown-ups.
The format is simple. On the righthand page is a painting by the great traditional countryside artist Tunnicliffe. On the facing page, the text describes what we see, picking out detail and explaining the background. The combination has real charm. We see the first catkins above a windswept mere, violets in a hedge bank, seagulls following the seed drill, rooks nesting, hares "boxing" (I was nearly 50 before I saw this for real, in Norfolk), and so on through spring to a classic Tunnicliffe compostion of a herring gulls nest high on rocks amid thrift and campion. there is an index at the back, too.
When I was a small child, growing up in precisely the countryside found in these pages, I found the books enthralling. They DID tell me what to look for, and, guided by its gently didactic tone, I saw it. Though beautfully written, the language used in the text is surprisingly grown up; these aren't "early reader" books and grown-ups looking for bedtime reading for an intelligent child will find enough here to stretch them. An ideal introduction to get someone interested in nature, or a blast from the past for sentimental grown-ups.
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