![]() ![]() No matter how drastic their misdemeanours though, Laura and Harry, her subjects, took their frolicsome attributes to fearsome extremes, the one, at one time, chopping off all her hair while the other set the house on fire. Like many another erstwhile classic it is perhaps heading for oblivion.Ĭatherine Sinclair, its author, announced at the start that her endeavour was to portray ‘a species of noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children’ as distinct from the educated paragons or the moral delinquents who inhabited many of the children’s books of her time, and she did it con brio. For although the book was in print for over a century after its first publication in 1839, and although Barbara Willard presided over a reprint in 1972 (and who now is familiar with her?) its best advocate would hardly see it as a popular fare for today’s infant customers. Those familiar with the stories that make up Holiday House.Ī disappointing, but not unsurprising result. Two for the price of one: Mrs Crabtree introduces… ![]()
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