Re: R. J. McGregor - The Young Detectives, etc.
Posted: 09 Sep 2017, 12:47
I've now read the first four chapters of the book and I'm enjoying it.
It's hard to believe this book was written long before Enid Blyton's adventure novels.
The author incorporates a good vocabulary that would stretch and increase the word power of any young readers who took the time to look up words they were unfamiliar with and the writer incorporates them in an amusing easy fashion.
The books setting is fabulous.The sort of place you would want to spend a long summer holiday. The children yearn for an adventure,but some of them don't think that they could realistically hope to have one - some do.
If you decide to read the book,be sure to mentally compare the food descriptions written by this author's to Enid Blyton's.
I'm enjoying the book so far.It's well written and the children's mother comes across as a rather cool,forward thinking lady indeed.
I always enjoy checking up any of the background references in the books I'm reading. A reference to a book their father was reading called 'Christopher Strong' on page 48 of this book proved most interesting..
It's hard to believe this book was written long before Enid Blyton's adventure novels.
The author incorporates a good vocabulary that would stretch and increase the word power of any young readers who took the time to look up words they were unfamiliar with and the writer incorporates them in an amusing easy fashion.
The books setting is fabulous.The sort of place you would want to spend a long summer holiday. The children yearn for an adventure,but some of them don't think that they could realistically hope to have one - some do.
If you decide to read the book,be sure to mentally compare the food descriptions written by this author's to Enid Blyton's.
I'm enjoying the book so far.It's well written and the children's mother comes across as a rather cool,forward thinking lady indeed.
I always enjoy checking up any of the background references in the books I'm reading. A reference to a book their father was reading called 'Christopher Strong' on page 48 of this book proved most interesting..