tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post914685922437623404..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: "NEW" AUTHORS: children's writers (1 of 2)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-29006536769023642362020-05-04T07:25:53.416-07:002020-05-04T07:25:53.416-07:00Ha! I love it. I hadn't noticed the iPhone. :...Ha! I love it. I hadn't noticed the iPhone. :-)Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-28845800529003219042020-05-04T07:24:50.811-07:002020-05-04T07:24:50.811-07:00Sue, can you email me and let me know which title ...Sue, can you email me and let me know which title you found? Unfortunately, due to the current situation, our plans for August have been evolving a bit, and I'd like to make sure the book you saw really is going to be released! Hopefully, an announcement can follow soon.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-16342920380260427242020-05-04T07:22:04.572-07:002020-05-04T07:22:04.572-07:00Thanks Dixie!Thanks Dixie!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-83279336850181002532020-05-04T07:21:49.766-07:002020-05-04T07:21:49.766-07:00From a quick Google search it looks like you'r...From a quick Google search it looks like you're right Sue! I'll confirm it more thoroughly and then remove her from the list. Thanks!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-89609355504044091562020-05-04T07:20:27.624-07:002020-05-04T07:20:27.624-07:00Thanks Tom!Thanks Tom!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-89285648483575160962020-05-04T07:19:31.222-07:002020-05-04T07:19:31.222-07:00Thanks Tanya!Thanks Tanya!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-56434987981597830792020-05-04T07:18:15.689-07:002020-05-04T07:18:15.689-07:00Every time someone describes a book they're lo...Every time someone describes a book they're looking for, I think it sounds familiar, but actually I have no idea. Good luck tracking it down!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-84743796764226200272020-05-04T07:16:36.934-07:002020-05-04T07:16:36.934-07:00Oh heavens, you don't think I've read all ...Oh heavens, you don't think I've read all of these?! These are just authors I've added to my main list. But now I'm curious why you would be particularly curious what I thought of the Ann Thorne book?Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-24908020618197706662020-04-30T09:02:04.733-07:002020-04-30T09:02:04.733-07:00Golly, Scott, such riches! And some of that cover ...Golly, Scott, such riches! And some of that cover art...especially those of the Helen Jeffies books. Funny how some artists can just evoke an atmosphere of the story. And others are, well, nice.<br /><br />Okay, I was looking at Ann Thorne, Reporter, as she covered the society beat (of course...) I assume she's the one in green, not sophisticated redhead. Especially since she's holding her iPhone in her hand.Susan Dhttp://www.susandaly.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-2365899805103397802020-04-29T10:54:48.555-07:002020-04-29T10:54:48.555-07:00While playing on the Amazon website I came across ...While playing on the Amazon website I came across one of your FM titles that's due to published in August. Can you cheer us all up through this strange time we are in and do one of your Grand Reveals of the other titles? Please.Sue in Suffolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166036914348424622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-90381260693641040412020-04-29T10:36:48.404-07:002020-04-29T10:36:48.404-07:00Dear Scott, I want to read them all!!! Especially...Dear Scott, I want to read them all!!! Especially the Brownie stories.Dixie Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05137137354422188659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-83176533130358086022020-04-26T12:48:42.852-07:002020-04-26T12:48:42.852-07:00Scott, I suspect (though I've never researched...Scott, I suspect (though I've never researched it properly) that 'Barbara Gilson' was actually the highly prolific Major Charles Gilson, who specialised in boys' adventure stories. BG's two girls' books are very similar to CG's both in style and in plot devices. Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-54079819189464783482020-04-25T11:07:35.005-07:002020-04-25T11:07:35.005-07:00As always, loving the cover art, especially the An...As always, loving the cover art, especially the Ann Thorne titles! I spent all that time in the Children's Literature Department at the Los Angeles Public Library, but most of these authors are new to me.<br />Tom<br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-12545945660933499902020-04-25T07:54:06.523-07:002020-04-25T07:54:06.523-07:00They were two events in a single book. I don'...They were two events in a single book. I don't have any memory of illustrations, wait, I think I can see the "guy" (disguised child) in a wagon. But I may well be remembering an illustration of some other "guy" in a wagon. It could be Enid Blyton, although the few of those I have found to read as an adult seem to have rural or small town settings and I feel pretty certain this was a city, perhaps even London. Thanks for the suggestion.<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-56388468393655950082020-04-25T00:22:33.535-07:002020-04-25T00:22:33.535-07:00Thanks so much for showing us these incredibly evo...Thanks so much for showing us these incredibly evocative covers. I remember being gripped by Helen Griffith's The Wild Heart when I was a child - I had that edition. As for the query about the two English children's adventure books, I don't suppose they are Enid Blytons are they? She wrote whole series about groups of children who solve mysteries and outwit villains - The Secret Seven, The Five Find-outers, The Famous Five etc, and I can remember the children doing these kind of things! Can you remember the illustrations - I find these stay in one's head right through life... Tanya van Hasselthttp://ninevoices.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-23289398075528216792020-04-24T15:27:14.540-07:002020-04-24T15:27:14.540-07:00As always, some lovely cover art and interesting/e...As always, some lovely cover art and interesting/entertaining stories. Thank you Scot.<br /><br />This children's book post seems like a good time to ask for help identifying a British children's book that I read in my youth. I have no idea of the author or title, or if the author is female or male. I don't even remember details of the main plot. What I remember are a couple of details of English life that fascinated me as being so different from my life in the American Midwest. I probably read the book sometime between 1964 and 1972 or so, but it might have been published long before that, as I was never one to disregard a book because it was "old".<br /><br />It was about a group (club or ??) of children living in an urban area in England. Some adults were up to no good and the children resolved to discover what was happening. To shadow/spy on the adults they used a number of ploys, two of which really stick in my mind. One was the "penny for the Guy" ploy, they went around with a guy dummy asking for donations, even though it was the wrong time of year, feeling comfortable that the adults would just think, silly/greedy kids it isn't close to early November. At one point they even dressed one of their number up as the "guy" and left him sitting in a strategic spot to watch well into the night, ignored by the adults.<br /><br />The other was one kid got into the "boot" of a car belonging to the bad adults and left a trail for his friends to follow, using a "tin of tooth powder" which had a unique colour. It was old fashioned and the kids had bought up all that they could find in the chemist shops to have in stock. <br /><br />I loved those bits of "local color". Any ideas? I figure readers interested in the books Scot describes here might well have read and remembered my forgotten treasure.<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-49174157812785374812020-04-24T13:36:10.618-07:002020-04-24T13:36:10.618-07:00Hmmm, you don't say what you thought of Ann Th...Hmmm, you don't say what you thought of Ann Thorne in America and I am very curious.<br /><br />I did very much like Caterpillar Hall although thought I would have liked it best as a child. I do own Songberd's Grove but am not sure I have read it. <br /> Maybe I will move it higher on the TBR. <br />https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2012/04/caterpillar-hall-review.html<br /><br />I haven't read any Helen Griffiths but how I love illustrator Victor Ambrus! How did he have time to illustrate so many books? I don't think she was much published in the US. The only one I remember seeing was The Greyhound and I never got around to pursuing, despite the appealing cover.<br />CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.com