![]() ![]() ![]() Their friends are Larry (13) and Daisy (12) The other 12-year-old is Pip, who’s light on his feet but rather scathing of his younger sister Bets, who is eight - but quite a clear thinker. His dog Buster is also an important part of the group. He’s a bit boastful at times, as he knows that he’s extremely bright, but he’s also kind, and full of integrity. Set in the 1940s, it was well before the days of political correctness, so one of the 12-year-old children, whose initials are FAT and who is somewhat overweight is known as ‘Fatty’, but he takes it mostly in good humour. I was expecting to find it rather trite and was pleasantly surprised that I thought it very readable. I’ve just finished ‘The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat’, second in the series, a book which I acquired in 1969 and read many times during my teens, but which I had not read for at least twenty-five years. A young friend has been borrowing, repeatedly, the ‘Five Find-Outers’ series by Enid Blyton, so I decided to choose one of those. So I decided instead to re-read a couple of my children’s books. But although I’m in the middle of four different books currently, I realised it was going to be difficult to finish any of them in two days - and I wouldn’t enjoy them. I had read 98 books by Christmas Eve, so should easily have reached my target. My ‘Goodreads’ challenge, I had decided, was a modest 100 books for 2021. It’s been a busy month and I haven’t read as many books as I expected to. ![]()
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