Looking after Thomas

The Thomas Series

by Jane Shaw

The first of the Thomas books, set in Paris.

119 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Jane Shaw (1910-2000), born Jean Bell Shaw Patrick, was a children's book author. She was the daughter of Dr. John Patrick, and his wife, Margaret (née Shaw). Educated first by a governess, and then at the Park School in Glasgow, she went on to Glasgow University, where she graduated with Honors in English Literature and Language, in 1932. After taking a teacher training course in London, Shaw returned to Glasgow, where she worked for the publisher Collins, and where one of the editors encouraged her to write her own stories. Breton Holiday, published in 1939, was the result.

Shaw married accountant John Evans in 1939, settling with him in Dulwich, London, where they lived with their children - daughter Jane, son Ian - until they were bombed out during World War II. A job in Johannesburg took the family to South Africa, where they lived from 1952 to 1978, after which they returned to Scotland. Shaw, who is best remembered as the creator of the eleven-book Susan series, died in 2000.

Reviews

[Martyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I find it a bit unfortunate that this is written in the first person because you are meant to be inside the head of a boy, and yet you feel more like the observations you are meant to be making are those of a girl, which at first is a little grating. But I guess you get used to it in time and end up with a fairly enjoyable but also fairly trivial and fairly typical Jane Shaw kind of European adventure.

[Robert Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

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