Jane Shaw
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Jane Shaw
Here's another Susan fan. I have all but the scarce 3 and enjoy re-reading them when I want a good laugh. Have you read Alison Lindsey's Susan and Friends:The Jane Shaw Companion? It is published by the Bettany Press who have also reprinted the 3 rare titles.
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Jane Shaw
I only got hold of one Susan book, 'Susan Pulls the Strings' but i remember i really enjoyed it. Another Jane Shaw book i loved was Crooks Tour, the adventures of a madcap trio. I don't know if these characters were part of a series or it was a one off book.
Another series i enjoyed were the 'jill' pony books by Ruby Ferguson i think. Even though i don't know anything about horses i enjoyed the story and the humour.
cheers
Another series i enjoyed were the 'jill' pony books by Ruby Ferguson i think. Even though i don't know anything about horses i enjoyed the story and the humour.
cheers
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[Shagufta:] "Another series i enjoyed were the 'jill' pony books by Ruby Ferguson i think. Even though i don't know anything about horses i enjoyed the story and the humour."
I read the "Jill" books too, though I no longer have them and don't recall much about them now. From memory, they all seemed to involve Jill winning gymkhanas and doing a victory ride round the course with a rosette between her teeth! My sister and I would set up "jumps" in the garden, using buckets and brooms etc, and "ride" our spacehoppers round the course, pretending to be characters from the "Jill" books!
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I read the "Jill" books too, though I no longer have them and don't recall much about them now. From memory, they all seemed to involve Jill winning gymkhanas and doing a victory ride round the course with a rosette between her teeth! My sister and I would set up "jumps" in the garden, using buckets and brooms etc, and "ride" our spacehoppers round the course, pretending to be characters from the "Jill" books!
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two of them are boarding school stories .. I mentioned them on the thread you posted about boarding school books . I love Jane SHaw! Haven't got the three scarce ones yet but I just found out they had been reissued and as soon as I have some money after the frenzied CHristmas spending I will be buying them!!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
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Oops sorry Moose, I got so many recommendations on that thread I must've forgotten Jana Shaw's name for some reason
I did take a quick look at Amazon and most of what's available seems to be relatively 'expensive' vintage stuff ... Do you know if the most recent editions have been altered like the Enid Blyton books have from the 1990's onwards ? Thanks !
I did take a quick look at Amazon and most of what's available seems to be relatively 'expensive' vintage stuff ... Do you know if the most recent editions have been altered like the Enid Blyton books have from the 1990's onwards ? Thanks !
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If they were expensive on amazon then you're being ripped off . I wouldn't pay more than two or three pounds for most of them, and up to fifteen or twenty at the very max for the more rare of the 'commonly available' ones .. there are only one or two that I'd put in that category. Try ebay .. I got most of my copies for a pound or two each.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
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I hope she enjoys them .. they're well worth reading
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
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Re: Jane Shaw
I have recently started to collect the Susan books translated into Swedish (the first 8 ones). Are the 3 latest hard to get? I though I'd try to get them in English, since they are not translated into Swedish.
The books are funny though Susan is pathologically helpful. I don't believe in helping people who don't ask for it. But of course, this is what makes Susan get into entertaining scrapes.
But I think that #5 (Susan goes to school) is really #2, b/c it is obvious that Susan arrives at St Ronans for the first time there.
(Trivia: In the Swedish translations, Susan is nn Fifi!)
The books are funny though Susan is pathologically helpful. I don't believe in helping people who don't ask for it. But of course, this is what makes Susan get into entertaining scrapes.
But I think that #5 (Susan goes to school) is really #2, b/c it is obvious that Susan arrives at St Ronans for the first time there.
(Trivia: In the Swedish translations, Susan is nn Fifi!)
Susie wrote:I really like the Jane Shaw books, they are so funny, i can be on the floor laughing none stop. I especially like "the Susan books."
In fact some of her old books have just come back in print. (Bettany press)
Does anyone else like Jane Shaw?
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I am actually very like Susan - overly helpful . So I can empathise with her helping people who don't want to be helped and then being rebuffed.
I still haven't actually got the last three even though they have been rereleased!
I still haven't actually got the last three even though they have been rereleased!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
EF