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Daisy, Julie still hasn't grown much. :D
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Are you suggesting I'm small, Moonraker! :lol:

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Hmm, I'm not a big fan of that cover. I will get it anyway as the other two annuals have fantastic content.
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I got my new Famous Five Annual this morning along with some other new publications. I have only skimmed through it so far, but it looks really nice, I think it is the best yet. I hope others are in agreement when it hits the shops in a month or so.
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Sounds good! Looking forward to seeing it! :D
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Tony Summerfield wrote:I got my new Famous Five Annual this morning along with some other new publications. I have only skimmed through it so far, but it looks really nice, I think it is the best yet. I hope others are in agreement when it hits the shops in a month or so.
If you're hoping to make us jealous and wish we could see it too, you just succeeded! ;-) Sounds like a good book to buy - such a shame it might be the last one. :-(
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Robert Houghton wrote:If you're hoping to make us jealous and wish we could see it too, you just succeeded!
Course he is! :D
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Well at least you can pop over to Tony's, and see this book too, Nigel. We can't! :lol:

I bet Tony is really pleased I live miles and miles away! :lol:

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Tony Summerfield wrote:I got my new Famous Five Annual this morning along with some other new publications. I have only skimmed through it so far, but it looks really nice, I think it is the best yet. I hope others are in agreement when it hits the shops in a month or so.
Just got the 2014 and 2015 FF Annuals a month ago and they are absolutely gorgeous. 8)
Meanwhile I read them both.
IMHO they are even better than the old FF Annuals, although I like them as well (got five of the old ones, the 1997 annual about the new FF TV series was very good!).
But I missed Soper's illustrations in the old annuals. I wonder why they didn't contain any?

Will order the 2016 FF Annual next year. And I desperately hope there will be a 2017 FF annual...
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Chrissie777 wrote:I missed Soper's illustrations in the old annuals. I wonder why they didn't contain any?
The aim was to present the Five as "contemporary" so Eileen Soper's illustrations would have been regarded as old-fashioned.
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And it worked! It was ages before I actually realised The Famous Five weren't contemporary - probably aided by the fact I had only ever seen the Maxey illustrations and the annuals as a child. When I did borrow one of my sister's paperback versions that contained Soper's illustrations, I thought she was the interloper! :shock:
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Just a quick reminder of the earlier cover compared to the one eventually chosen.
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I'm still not keen on the cover but if the content is as interesting as the previous two annuals it will be a cracker.
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I'll certainly buy it when it comes out. Asda usually has them in, so I'll pick up a copy from there. :)

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