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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
This is a narrative description which moves through the months of Winter. Quite a lot of info but not easy to access due to structure of the narrative. All the months run together. Does have an index. Best read for the historical differences between farming in 1959 and now.
First, let me rant and rave about how much I love the Ladybird series In Nature. My biggest question to the publishing house is why they don't re-publish these gems in the style of Peter The Rabbit, etc. keeping the integrity of the same style of illustration and writing again? Pleaseeee re-publish these books, sell them in a boxed set, and take all my money for them.
I do not own the hard copies of these books, but i have been able to borrow the e-version from Archive.org, from scanned private collections from libraries all over the world. I am constantly one the lookout at used bookstores and antique booksellers for them though. Check out Archive.org! I donate every year, as they are an excellent resource when looking to access old books, without the money wall, or fortress I should say. Additionally, they highly lend to to buying of books as you can see if the content is what you wanted- and go from there, all while finding similar reads.
On the book itself. It is such a pleasant read, and once completed will have you feeling as though you've just spent a few weeks in the English countryside during the winter. I can say, living here in England, that the observations in the late 1900s when this was written, are still valid today. With some changes of course due to climate change, and also particularly with the discovery of how Mistletoe spreads! lol. They are an incredible way to have the attention to natural details one would get from a venture out in the woodland, but right at home. The artwork is charming and beautiful.
I do not own the hard copies of these books, but i have been able to borrow the e-version from Archive.org, from scanned private collections from libraries all over the world. I am constantly one the lookout at used bookstores and antique booksellers for them though. Check out Archive.org! I donate every year, as they are an excellent resource when looking to access old books, without the money wall, or fortress I should say. Additionally, they highly lend to to buying of books as you can see if the content is what you wanted- and go from there, all while finding similar reads.
On the book itself. It is such a pleasant read, and once completed will have you feeling as though you've just spent a few weeks in the English countryside during the winter. I can say, living here in England, that the observations in the late 1900s when this was written, are still valid today. With some changes of course due to climate change, and also particularly with the discovery of how Mistletoe spreads! lol. They are an incredible way to have the attention to natural details one would get from a venture out in the woodland, but right at home. The artwork is charming and beautiful.
I love this little book. It was published in England in 1959. It talks of winter in England and the of the birds, trees and other interesting goings on in the garden. I did not know that mistletoe is not a plant but grows in the branches of the tree.
I didn't do enough research about this book before I bought it. It is not scientific and is quite out of date. If I were a child growing up in the 1960s, I would have liked this book much more.