I can still remember the feeling I got the first time I read Princess. At this point I was fairly new to the CS, so I'd read a couple of the much later stories (Shocks, Barbara, Island), and then decided I ought to make the effort to read them in the right order. So I came to Princess having read...
This is ne of the treasures I found in a second-hand children's bookshop Hay-on-Wye when i was there recently – a third edition of ‘Jo of the Chalet School’ by Elinor M Brent-Dyer, published in 1936, with illustrated bookplates intact. This is the second book in the famous series about a girls’ s...
On the whole, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was at the peak of her authorial powers when she first created the Chalet School series. In the Tyrol, everything about this quaint, reassuring, wonderful universe was still fresh - it could get a bit outlandish, in the style of school stories with a healthy dol...
Well, I've reread about ten of these today (not going to rate them all, thinking of your poor feeds), and I've only got about twenty in the series, which must contain over fifty books... I tend to divide the copies I've got into two sets. The first set is the beginning of the school, which is a b...