Puffin Story Book PS302. 1st Edition, published 1966.
A semi-autobiographical story 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 animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some creasing to spine. Light crease to front corner top corner. Mark to right hand edge of front cover. Light crease to bottom left corner of rear cover. Pencil name and pen name to inside front cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Puffin Story Book PS302. 1st Edition, published 1966.
A semi-autobiographical story 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 animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some creasing to spine. Light crease to front corner top corner. Mark to right hand edge of front cover. Light crease to bottom left corner of rear cover. Pencil name and pen name to inside front cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
