does anyone remember a book called Fattiepoofs and Thiniffers?

[Orang Utan]

Ah, it's an anti time wasting thing.

yes, I need that dude. I knocked the other thing on the head, but the internet's much harder to give up

i read three books in a week since discovering freedom. pray there's a PC version soon, or just get your own self-control

 

[Pip]

i'm glad people are still reading them - did you read those as a kid, pip?

They were read to me as a young child, and then I really got into folk and fairy tales as a preteen and re-read them. If it makes you happy I'll give my copy to my nieces.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I could tell you some of them without reading them Pip, I knew them so well as a child, as did my mother too.

 

[Orang Utan]

They were read to me as a young child, and then I really got into folk and fairy tales as a preteen and re-read them. If it makes you happy I'll give my copy to my nieces.

i think we have similar mums, pip.
i shall be passing on the lang to my own as well.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i read three books in a week since discovering freedom. pray there's a PC version soon, or just get your own self-control

Yeah part of it was my time in China. It was really really hard to get English language books there (other than Chinese reprints of the classics like the Brontes and stuff, which really doesn't inspire me) so other than things which people brought me on trips, I had nothing to read, so I just got used to using the internet the whole time. I didn't have a western bank card/credit card so couldn't order anything off Amazon either.

 

[Orang Utan]

I could tell you some of them without reading them Pip, I knew them so well as a child, as did my mother too.

the lang books i read and that were read to me were my grandmother's
i was read alice in wonderland in a late 19th century edition - not an original edition of course but a treasured book all the same. i wonder if we still have it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Do you mean These ones?

 

[rich!]

i read three books in a week since discovering freedom. pray there's a PC version soon, or just get your own self-control

I typically read a couple of novels while waiting for an amusing post on Urban.

Sometimes I'll throw in a spot of non-fiction, too.

The trick, I find, is to open about fifty tabs from the "new posts" page, read a couple of hundred pages while the browser settles down, and then cane teh urbanz.

 

[Orang Utan]

Do you mean These ones?

certainly the tenniel illustrated ones - the definitive alice. don't bother with any other version

 

[weltweit]

I read Fattipuffs & Thinnifers as a child.
A very amusing read though a bit complex for children, kind of a kids 1984.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yes, that's the version I know too.

On a slightly different note, although I do like Quentin Blake's illustrations for later Dahl books like The Witches, with his older books I grew up with the older illustrator for books like James and the Giant peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and in schools I've noticed that the older ones have been reprinted with Quentin Blake illustrations, which is rather revisionist imo...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

You can't beat tenniel's Jabberwocky

 

[Orang Utan]

quentin blake is a genius
this is the first entry of his in google image search:

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

He was - but I still like the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator/James and the Giant peach illustrations...

 

[Orang Utan]

who were they by?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

There appear to have been two different lots, one by Joseph Schindelman (USA) and one by Faith jacques (UK)

 

[Pip]

If it's the ones I'm thinking of, Nancy Ekholm someone.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I loved this picture of the house where James lived

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

And from Fantastic Mr Fox

 

[Pip]

Upsidedownwalrus, are you sure you're not thinking of the woman up there? Whose full name, google reveals, is Nancy Ekholm Burkert.

She's most famous for this copy of Snow White, but I'm sure she did the early James and the Giant Peach too.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

You may be right - I'll check...

Cheers

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yes, you are indeed right

I love this one

 

[Orang Utan]

the fox ones i remember were by blake, as were george's marvellous medicine and the bfg.
the james and the giant peach one i remember were by none of the above - would like to find out who.
none of the above illustrators ring a bell for me, apart from the jaques glass elevator book cover.
ooh, i feel an MA coming on...

 

[Pip]

the fox ones i remember were by blake, as were george's marvellous medicine and the bfg.
the james and the giant peach one i remember were by none of the above - would like to find out who.
none of the above illustrators ring a bell for me, apart from the jaques glass elevator book cover.
ooh, i feel an MA coming on...

Lane Smith? Although that's much later.

He illustrated my favourite childhood book

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yeah - George's, BFG, Matilda, Witches, Twits were all Blake.

Danny the Champion, James, the Charlie books, all someone else.

I loved the Glass Elevator depictions of the Vermicious Knids in the one I had...

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah - George's, BFG, Matilda, Witches, Twits were all Blake.

Danny the Champion, James, the Charlie books, all someone else.

I loved the Glass Elevator depictions of the Vermicious Knids in the one I had...

i shall do a sober search at work tomorrow - better to get paid to do this, eh?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

This is what your MA is about?

Lucky thing...

 

[Orang Utan]

no! i was just fantasising - i think my next certificate will be a primary PGCE if anything

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

no! i was just fantasising - i think my next certificate will be a primary PGCE if anything

That's a good idea. You need to have quite a humourous personality to be good at Primary School if you're a bloke, in my view, and I think you've got that, going from pics I've seen and stuff - primary school kids would love you.

On the other hand, I've found that I seem to be better at teaching older kids. I found it hard to connect with the primary school kids...

 

[Orang Utan]

i couldn't handle stabby teens