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Bogwoppit (A Puffin Book)

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I'm glad Puffin republished these lesser known children's stories, and with wonderful covers which is always a good thing. Good reading from Bond, and plenty of creative sounds and effects to represent the Bogwoppit itself, and good distinction between characters.

Shirley Hughes has created some beautiful illustrations to accompany the text which really enhances the story, and I loved repeatedly reading this tale of an ordinary girl who has an extraordinary adventure and ends up with everything she ever wanted. I love it just as much today as I did back then, and I think it’s a brilliantly constructed, cleverly written and humorous story that will appeal to any generation. It is about an orphan girl whose guardian aunt was done with her and told her to go live with her antisocial aunt. I would have preferred more about the old house and garden, and less about the bogwoppits, who are unpleasant and stinky, but it a child who enjoys all the magical creature books around today were to somehow come across it, they might like the bogwoppits much more than I did. Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, written while expecting her first child, remained in print throughout her life from its publication in 1939.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The appeal of this book is the humour and the sheer level of imagination that has gone into the story. She has been abandoned in a decaying old house by her aristocratic explorer husband, fighting the creeping damp and the encroaching bogwoppits and it has made her afraid and bitter. When Aunt Lily marries the lodger and goes to America, orphaned Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who lives in a grand house at the Park. Weaving humour, fantasy and suspense into a highly inventive story, its eco theme and larger-than-life characters ensure its popularity with today’s young readers.

These drawings are not cutesy, but the pictures of Samantha are excellent and portray the complex person in the story very well indeed. They included The Good Little Christmas Tree of 1943, and Gobbolino, the Witch’s Cat first published the previous year. It is, she discovers, a bogwoppit, an animal assumed extinct, and one of many that come up through the drains from the outside pond. When Aunt Lily marries and moves to America, orphan Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who has no time for children. She discovers they were thought to be extinct, and is deeply horrified when her aunt, who considers them pests, kills all of them with poison.however, Aunt Lily and Samantha have never really got on, and Samantha does not feel wanted or loved. The story is interesting, I remember being gripped by it as a kid, and with a group of my friends, because it has more tragedy in it than most books for kids that age, and yet it's fun, quirky, and has so many things in it that you want in a story at that age. The antisocial aunt lives in a mansion in a park, and absolutely does not want the girl staying there. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. En masse, they are quite annoying, but The-One-and-Only-Bogwoppit-in-the-World is different and becomes the star of the show. Ursula Moray Williams was born on 19 April 1911 at Petersfield, Hampshire, ten minutes after her twin sister, Barbara. It seems as though Samantha and her aunt will never agree - until one day Aunt Daisy mysteriously disappears and Samantha plans a big rescue operation! The last thing she wants is the responsibility of her brash niece, but Samantha isn’t taking no for an answer, and they are going to have to learn how to rub along together.My pick for the book I would take from my childhood favourites to read and reread on a desert island for June was Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams.

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