“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing… — Miss Read Copy Share
Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight… — Miss Read Copy Share
The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things. — Miss Read Copy Share Image
