I started reading this book to my four-year-old while my older children went on a trip with dad. I didn’t realize that the version I’d picked up was the original 1924 version, but OH what a TREAT! This is not the watered-down easy reader that the series became. This is more Nesbit and Blyton. Warner revised her book in 1942 and removed anything she deemed “unsafe” (drinking from streams, the drunk father).
— Jun 25, 2025 01:23AM
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