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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 0:12:11 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 0:41:01 GMT
I have just watched this and is so gorgeous!  He is reading one of the stories I always used to go back to when I was a kid and to this day I can still remember the image of the scary character in that book, it used to make me freeze with fright, literally, but I kept going back to the story. I liked the scary character but I think I liked the fact that it got its comeuppance too. I won't spoil it foe you by revealing the story but it is one of the most beautiful things ever I think. Richard can read me a story anytime.  |
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Post by Mystik on Jun 17, 2009 4:52:54 GMT
I just watched this... Awww!! Never really had stories like that when I was a kid, but still, good on Richard for doing that. Bet his kids think they have the best dad ever |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 13:05:07 GMT
That's what I was thinking too. |
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Post by Wyvern on Jun 17, 2009 15:04:06 GMT
Aww! That was my favourite Ladybird book when I was in infant's school |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 17, 2009 15:18:24 GMT
Aww, sweet. I didn't have the Ladybird version, but I did have a giant compendium of stories, and the pictures I remember from my version were scaree  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 15:50:55 GMT
I can still see in my mind, the image of the scary character. I swear the whole point was to scare children.
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 17, 2009 16:02:43 GMT
That's what most fairy stories are all about ;D If this story scared you, do not, whatever you do, read any of 'Struwwelpeter'. Now those are some seriously scary things - and they were specifically aimed at kids. the author wrote the book for his own son.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 16:23:23 GMT
Never heard of that one to be honest but why were they desinged to be so scary? Cautionary tales maybe?
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 17, 2009 16:31:36 GMT
That's exactly it - presumably the son was a little terror and his dad wanted to make him behave better ;D Two I remember quite well have a little girl who told lies and burned to a crisp because of it, and one had a tailor with giant scissors who chased after children and cut them into bits, but I can't remember why he did that  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 16:46:11 GMT
I remember that first one; The story of Matilda the little girl who told lies and was burnt to death. Don't remember the second one though.
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 17, 2009 16:47:56 GMT
I loved those stories, oddly enough ;D Says a lot about me!
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Post by Wyvern on Jun 17, 2009 17:29:14 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 18:25:54 GMT
I had a compilation book when I was a kid and it was one of my faves, it had that in it, lots of nonsense poetry too and I love that, by one of those Victorian blokes, and I can't remember his name now and that is really going to annoy me!! Maybe I am thinking if Hilaire Belloc and I am just getting muddled again. One of my fave poems was one about a man with a huuuuuge beard that had animals living in it! And there was one about a woman who played a harp with her very pointy chin. |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 17, 2009 18:41:08 GMT
I used to love 'The Owl And The Pussycat'. And there is, of course, the (to me) legendary 'King John's Christmas' which I had to learn, in full, and in five days, for a poetry recitation competition at school. Which I won *haz a big head* To this day, I can still remember the whole blummin' thing |
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Post by Wyvern on Jun 17, 2009 19:41:49 GMT
I used to love 'The Owl And The Pussycat'. Ah, good old Edward Lear! Could that be who you were thinking of, UM? |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 17, 2009 20:09:23 GMT
Yes!! That's him!! Thank you, that was bugging the life out of me!! |
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