First published in the year of my birth, a year after the the poets tragic early death, Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales is classified as a prose work but it is more than that. It contains many wonderful examples of Thomas's evocative phrasing. When he sings (for all his poetry is a song, and […]
It's Christmas Eve (in the western tradition) and I am afraid we are back in the Edwardian period again with the Just William books by Richmal Compton. My route to these however, is not a conventional one. The books were not on the approved list when I was growing up. I suspect that my Mother's love […]
So far in this Christmas series I have been dealing with books published, or largely written between the two world wars. Now I remain convinced that this was the golden period for Children's literature as posts over the next few days will confirm, however it is not the only period. My own recollections […]
And so, in the third of this Christmas series on children's book we come to The Hobbit. Published in 1937 so not strictly Edwardian, but from the same fertile interwar period that produced the first two books in this series, and I am not finished with it yet! I'm writing this having returned from […]
Well the world didn't end today, although given the inability of Cardiff Blues to win matches I was rather wishing it would earlier this evening. Of course some worlds do end; the Edwardian period, which gave us some of the finest literature in the English language since the Jacobean period, is now but a memory to […]
I drove up to Warwick University by way of Bath this morning. Bath was for a fascinating meeting on representation of pain which will be the subject of future posts as there are several links to SenseMaker® and a growing body of healthcare work. Warwick was to pick up my son Huw who is now […]
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