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Post by Charlotte on Feb 21, 2015 18:24:30 GMT 1
There are some very old-fashioned genres of childrens' book that perhaps only enthusiasts would likely read now. One of these is Guiding/Scouting stories. I really liked The Chalet Girls in Camp though. It's a Chalet School book set in prewar Austria, but one of the non-school ones, about their summer guide camp. Guiding sometimes features to a varying extent, until the later books abandon it altogether.
Anyway, I was in the cubs/scouts though mostly did'nt like it that much, being very shy then. Think we went pony trekking on Dartmoor once. They also organised an awful expedition down some caves in Devon, which were full of mud and dangerous holes. Was anyone else in guides or scouts, did you do anything horsy?
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Post by Claire on Feb 22, 2015 11:58:22 GMT 1
I wasn't in any of the guides/brownies etc. I wasn't really one for joining organised groups. I would have liked to join the Pony Club tho - but there wasn't one nearby. There doesn't seem a huge market for Girl Guide stories. They usually go very cheaply. Verily Anderson seems to have been one of the more popular of the authors writing books about the Brownies, one of these was actually a horse story. There is a funny bit in her obituary about her Brownie books being disapproved of by the Brownie 'powers that be' for being 'too exciting' !! I'll add a link to my web page for her below - I have since found another possible pony book written by her to add to the page. verilyanderson.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/
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Post by tintin on Mar 2, 2015 13:21:06 GMT 1
Around the time of the Great War there was a massively popular boy's adventure writer Percy Westerman a lot of whose books were about scouts. Our local secondhand bookshop had someones huge collection of them.
Unfortunately I read one of his books and it was so awful it put me off the rest
They were all bought by a collector
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Post by susanb on Mar 2, 2015 18:01:22 GMT 1
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 3, 2015 0:14:57 GMT 1
I've just got The Marigolds Make Good (Catherine Christian) for about £1 on ebay. Was expecting a standalone Guiding story, but it's about a Guide Company at (I think) a day school not boarding.
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