The Miss Bianca books!! I have not read those since I was small but I loved the ones we had in our library (I think the first four and possibly a later Bernard one?), especially the one where they rescue a prisoner from the salt mines, a concept I’d never heard of before then and then vaguely assumed was something all countries had tucked away in a corner somewhere. And Garth Williams’ illustrations are always so pettable.
I read the Little Prince and liked bits of it but the tone never worked for me.
(and I read a Brazil last year that was published in 1914 and had the teenage heroine triumphantly winning a music scholarship to study in Germany, which must have read quite differently when it came out. I do have many issues with EM Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series but I do admire the way she managed to deal with having an international fictional school in Europe when WWII broke out in real life)
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Date: 2022-04-15 09:19 am (UTC)I read the Little Prince and liked bits of it but the tone never worked for me.
(and I read a Brazil last year that was published in 1914 and had the teenage heroine triumphantly winning a music scholarship to study in Germany, which must have read quite differently when it came out. I do have many issues with EM Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series but I do admire the way she managed to deal with having an international fictional school in Europe when WWII broke out in real life)