Miss Read, Author, Read, Author, John S. Goodall, Illustrator . Houghton Mifflin $12 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-12704-7
To say that for those who like this sort of thing this book is definitely the sort of thing they like is generally understood to be damning with faint praise, but in this case it should be understood as an accolade. Miss Read's loving evocation...
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Miss Read, Author, Read, Author, John S. Goodall, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-395-57381-5
Thriving on juicy, well-meaning gossip, the residents of an old-fashioned English country village conspire to rescue one another in this rambling, gently humorous novel by the pseudonymous author of more than 30 books about Thrush Green. Tongues...
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Miss Read, Author, Read, Author, John S. Goodall, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-395-68994-3
In the latest-and possibly final-installment of the chronicles of the English village of Fairacre and its tiny school, the pseudonymous author and narrator Miss Read (Changes at Fairacre) begins the academic year anticipating few surprises. Two...
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Miss Read, Author, John S. Goodall, Illustrator, Read, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-395-63126-3
In the 35th novel to be set in the tiny British villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre, the characters and settings are as familiar and comfortable as old shoes. The pseudonymous Read has created an orderly universe in which people are kind and...
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Miss Read, Author, Grace Read, Author, John S. Goodall, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-395-46108-2
The latest Thrush Green novel by the prolific, pseudonymous ``Miss Read'' will undoubtedly satisfy those who enjoy simple and undemanding narratives largely about, and from the perspective of, the elderly. Having reached their 80s, the two village...
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Miss Read, Author, J. S. Goodall, Illustrator, John S. Goodall, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-395-50228-0
Working together since 1955, ``Miss Read'' (Doris Saint) and artist Goodall have created 31 books about a village in the English Cotswolds. Thrush Green is imaginary, inspired by the author's years in just such a place, among good friends. We find...
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