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No Beard No Glasses (and Very Much Shorter) - Once Upon My Childhood (Paperback)
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No Beard No Glasses (and Very Much Shorter) - Once Upon My Childhood (Paperback)
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Loot Price R479
Discovery Miles 4 790
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"Which of us has not longed to be transported back to those
carefree innocent days of childhood when everything was a blank
canvas for our fertile and limitless imaginations. A time when life
was simple and every day an adventure. This poignant, sometimes
humorous, sometimes sad but always entertaining book started life
as short stories for children, but here it is brought together for
both children and adults to enjoy and reflect upon their own
childhood." Although this is the story of my childhood, this book
started as a series of stories told in assemblies at a large
Primary school in Birkenhead. The wonder of growing up in a rural
suburb in the 1950s was in itself a story to chidren of a large
industrial town in the 1990s and 2000s, and yet I was talking about
places the children knew. They could relate to the scrapes, the
escapades, the ups and downs, the relationships between families
and friends, and yet it was so different a world. Eventually the
children and teachers persuaded me to write down the stories in
order and now, just as I retire from teaching they are finished.
Matthew aged 10 inspired the title of the book. Walking along a
corridor he said, as we passed, "Sir. When you write down the
stories you ought to somehow include the way you start every
story." Every assembly, when I was going to use a story about my
childhood I would start by stroking my beard and saying "No beard,"
then shaking my glasses I would add "No glasses," and finally
holding my arm out at the height of my head I would lower it slowly
to the approximate height that I would be in the story. Hence the
title "No Beard, No Glasses (and very much shorter)."
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