What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully… — 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… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
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… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
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
