Saturday, October 1, 2016

Camping Read alouds

What would you read if you were camping in the Wilds for 2 or 3 weeks at a time?

So far we have read

The Hobbit J.R.R Tolkein   .....Popular with all
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R Tolkein .....Popular with all
Treasure Island R.L.Stevenson ....More popular with Adults
Swiss Family Robinson .....the start only.... failed the test (penguins and flamingos flying round their heads)
The Scarlet Pimpernel.... Baroness Orzcy
Robinson Crusoe....Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations...Charles Dickens
Journey to the Center of the Earth...Jules Verne (not finished yet ..due to running out of holiday)

from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)