The Country Child Author:Alison Uttley, C. F. Tunnicliffe (Illustrator) This is a book about a girl growing up in the country. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle and hear the owls calling at dusk. — She writes about the small intense joys and sorrows of life on a small farm: the fun of haymaking, the sadness of favourite animal... more »s being slaughtered and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen.
It will delight everyone who enjoys tales of the countryside and its quiet serenity will stay with you long after more conventional stories are forgotten.
For girls (and boys with a taste for poetry) of thirteen and over.« less