susan pulls the strings

Susan #1

by Jane Shaw

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, 1st Edition 1952. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, discreet inscription. In bright silver lettered and embossed green cloth with clipped original colour pictorial dustwrapper chipped to spine and with portion of loss to tail of upper wrapper. A nostalgic delight for reader and collector alike.

Genres: Childrens

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

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

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute, charming tale (written in 1952) of young Scottish teenager Susan, who goes to spend her Christmas holidays with her lively London cousins while her parents travel to Africa for her father's work. Susan has a very active imagination and a tendency to want to solve problems, whether or not they need solving. Adventures, including skating, shopping, sightseeing, puppeteering, and crime-solving, ensue. Good fun!

[Daisy May Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick. light read from the fifties with some fun detail about London at Christmas. Fairly fleeting though.